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In other words, she is a housewife.
Franzen has been celebrated both as a systems novelist and a family novelist.
Its some of his most gripping systemic work yet.
The threat of domestic entrapment was urgent, the fight ardent.
That book tells the story of the Berglunds, a family of four living in Minnesota during the aughts.
In parts, the narrative is taken over by Pattys book-within-the-book autobiography, composed at her therapists suggestion.
She was competing with her mom and sisters.
For Franzens housewives,emotional appeal emerges from the tension between their private worlds and their role as homemakers.
The housewife is the boss of the home.
Likewise, Marions role as a pastors wife is inextricable from her commitment to secrecy.
In other words, tounderstand the person, it helps to picture their mother.
