No family is perfect, we’re all ordinary people. In the novel Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, Beth, a private woman, wife, and mother strives for perfection. After the death of one son and the near death of another, she builds feelings of hurt and denial. She denies her feelings and her family because it is her only way to cope with those feelings. Beth strives for perfection. Her life is like a Barbie doll’…showed first 75 words of 1392 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1392 total…a fun vacation, which will get her mind off these persisting problems. Beth and Conrad will constantly have their distance between each other until Beth can show Conrad that she really does care about him and not ignore him like she does throughout the novel. A mother is supposed to show her son that she cares about him and not think that he is just doing certain things just to get their attention. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**