![]() ![]() Enid wants her three adult children (two in Philadelphia, one in New York) to come back to the fictitious town of St. ![]() Alfred, the former chief engineer for the Midland Pacific railroad, has Parkinson’s disease. It is an odd irony that a firestorm of controversy surrounded the book’s publication because of (now New York based) Franzen’s declining to appear on that organ of Middle America, “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”įranzen begins with a portrait of an aging couple, Alfred and Enid Lambert, in a malaise of retirement. At its core, this is a family novel, but the generational and regional East Coast/Midwest differences within the Lambert family also sketch American society at the end of the twentieth century. But between these lies the conflict and it allows Franzen to highlight fissures in American society. While the three main characters are well-spoken East Coast professionals, their parents’ Midwestern, mid-century worldview is also charitably represented. ![]() The Corrections admirably portrays the values of both contemporary American yuppies and their square parents. ![]()
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