Garp's Night Out

Garp's Night OutGarp disapproved of Ralph's mother. This was unfair—he did not know the woman, but he was convinced he knew her type. She struck him as grossly disorganized; carelessness, for Garp, was especially unforgivable in the case of a parent. Garp's son, Duncan, was ten—"not out of danger, by any means," Garp often told his wife, Helen. Duncan had been a (continued on page 128) Grap's Night Out (continued from page 115) watched-over child, and now that he had reached an age whe...