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 | | She refuses to become a willing figurine in Enid's tableau vivant of personal martyrdom, and, more important, she can't stand to watch what being around his parents does to Gary's sense of himself and his sense of himself as a parent to their three boys. |
 | | But novelists do write to a present, and though there may be nothing of fishwives or moneylenders or hip hop in their pages, the language, the texture, the pattern, the 'aesthetics', have everything to do with the social pressure under which the book was written and under which it was initially read. |
 | | And the aesthetics of The Corrections are most pert, most alive, most thoroughly aligned when Enid opens up her heart in the privacy of her own voice and leaves you in no doubt about what society has made her, what it is making her still, and is making us as we read. |
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