In the book Garp is a writer and throughout the whole book you see bits and pieces of Garp's work. A long piece was called The World According To Bensenhaver which was a very crazy story to say the least. There was kidnappings, knives, blood, rape, so much happened in only a few pages. Garp was very proud of the book he wrote and was excited for it to be published. Everyone around him thoughtotherwise but that didn't stop Garp from wanting his work published.

The world according to Bensenhaver was a very interesting story. At first I did not quite understand that it was a story Garp had written and he was going to have soon after published. I also did not quite like the story personally. I liked a few bits and pieces but nothing reached out to me to keep my attention. You can tell whoever wrote this - in this case Garp - was very sad and mentally disturbed in a way. Of course us knowing his backstory and all about the accident and how he had lost a child. You can clearly tell this was an outlet of his emotions or he was just that mentally disturbed to write such a story. It was supposed to relate back to his accident involving his familyand in some ways it has some similarities but I do not understand why Helen had such a problem with Garp writing this story and not reading it. Besides it being gruesome and vulgar it did not really relate to the accident as much as I assume she thought it …show more content…
It wasn't badly written, I just didn't like how so much happened in such a small amount of time. Everything was so dramatic and nothing in the story was small or relatively normal. It was too dramatic for me personally. I would not go to a bookstore and pick it up and buy the book but that is just me. I know people who like books who have a lot going on and have tons of different conflicts at once. There was nothing I specifically did not like about the story, it just was not for