The book Ordinary People explains the troubles that occur in a typical American family. The family, the Jarrets, tries to maintain as much as a normal life as possible without a dysfunctional status. In the beginning of the story, the family deals with minor problems that had little impact to them. Since they had just moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, they try to establish relationships with other neighbors. Their son, Conrad, …showed first 75 words of 506 total…

…showed last 75 words of 506 total…he wasn’t too exciting to be with, and they had lacked seeing each other for some time. As Jarrett’s planned on a successful family relationship as soon as Conrad recovered from his problems, some devastating incidents got in their way. The biggest incident that broke up the family was when the entire family comes into a violent argument at the dinner table, and as a result, the mother leaves the family presumably forever.