“Garp’s mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater. this was shortly after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and people were being tolerant of soldiers, because suddenly everyone was a soldier, but Jenny Fields was quite firm in her intolerance of the behavior of men in general and soldiers in particular.”
John Irving, The World According to Garp
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