Infidelity In The World According To Garp

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The World According To Garp Both Garp and Helen have their own versions of infidelity throughout the book, but Helen, in my opinion, was the only one who was truly cheating. She snuck around with Michael Milton, and never told Garp or anyone. She did it because she had that emptiness that Garp could not fill. When Helen and Garp met Alice and Harrison Fletcher, they both planned the outcome of the situation, to make both of them happy, but they knew it would not last forever and it would suddenly be put to an end soon as someone was starting to catch serious feelings, like Alice did for Garp. But Garp did not go sneaking around Helen to see Alice, because both of them knew what was happening and why. Garp did not know what was happening and

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