Hannah Dickens

21 Century Literature
Franzen The Corrections
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Pg 7-"correct"-math figure was wrong and they wrote the right one
Pg 33-"correction"-Chip stays with girlfriend because he feels he has to
make up for Alfred and the patriarchal society
Pg 105-"correction"-Chip could cut the opening monologue of his script
entirely and he could make this quick fix in Eden's office even
Pg 179-"correction"-Gary sees his entire life as a correction of Alfred's,
a do-over but better
Pg 190-"self-correcting"-talking about Corecktall and about how now
instead of hospitalization and screwing something into the head, the
individual neural pathways under stimulation fix themselves
Pg 206-"corrective"/"corrections"-talking about penitentiary and how
this jail set up is just the same everywhere in the country, and fixes
nothing
Pg 250-"corrected"-Chip and Gary dont throw themselves on Alfred for
a hug anymore because it had been trained out of them, now they are
just subordinates
Pg 261-"correction"-Enid trying to fix Chip's refusal to eat her food

Pg 278-"corrections"-Alfred had sex with Enid while she was pregnant

with Denise and feels bad because he sees her, his last child, as his
last chance to fix his mistakes in parenting
Pg 332-"corrections"-Enid on Nordic Pleasurelines Cruise attending the
financing meeting
Pg 334-"corrections"-the economic market fixing itself by breaking and
collapsing
Pg 359-"corrections"/"corrections"-marking down the corrections on the
railroad maps and plans
Pg 423-"correction"-Denise thinking about the changes she is going
through and how the different her almost kissed Enid
Pg 461-"correct"-Alfred trying to figure out how to fix the light strand
Pg 561-"correction"-the economic fall was a gentle let-down and
depression rather than a bubble bursting suddenly
Pg 566-"correction"-all of the fixes that Enid tried to make to Alfred
through the years had never worked