The World According to Garp
“It was at Jenny’s suggestion that the Garp family moved into the Fields estate at Dog’s Head Harbor. There were many rooms for Jenny to take care of them in, and there was the healing sound of the sea, rushing in and out, rinsing everything clean.
All his life, Duncan Garp would associate the sound of the sea with his convalescence. His grandmother would remove the bandage; there was a kind of tidal irrigation of the hole where Duncan’s right eye had been. His father and mother could not st...and the sight of that empty hole, but Jenny was an old hand at staring down wounds until they went away. It was with his grandmother, Jenny Fields, that Duncan would see his first glass eye. “See?” Jenny said. “It’s big and brown; it’s not quite as pretty as your left one, but you just make sure the girls see your left one first.” It was not a very feminist thing to say, she supposed, but Jenny always said that she was, first and foremost, a nurse.
Duncan’s eye was gouged out when he was flung forward between the bucket seats; the uncovered tip of the stick-shift shaft was the first thing to break his fall.MoreLess
All his life, Duncan Garp would associate the sound of the sea with his convalescence. His grandmother would remove the bandage; there was a kind of tidal irrigation of the hole where Duncan’s right eye had been. His father and mother could not st...and the sight of that empty hole, but Jenny was an old hand at staring down wounds until they went away. It was with his grandmother, Jenny Fields, that Duncan would see his first glass eye. “See?” Jenny said. “It’s big and brown; it’s not quite as pretty as your left one, but you just make sure the girls see your left one first.” It was not a very feminist thing to say, she supposed, but Jenny always said that she was, first and foremost, a nurse.
Duncan’s eye was gouged out when he was flung forward between the bucket seats; the uncovered tip of the stick-shift shaft was the first thing to break his fall.MoreLess
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