Garp, through the aid of his mother, learns to forgive himself and his wife. As a result, Walt is killed and Duncan loses an eye. Having learned about his wife's infidelity with one of her students, Garp rushes home with his children in the back seat and crashes into his wife's lover's car parked in their driveway, while his wife is in the car performing fellatio on the student. Garp flirts with and possibly seduces his children's 18-year-old babysitter while driving her home. Garp is horrified by the practice and learns that the Jamesians have received a letter from Ellen James begging them to stop the practice, but they have voted to continue. A group of women represented at Jenny's center, "Ellen Jamesians," voluntarily cut out their own tongues as a show of solidarity. He also first hears the story of Ellen James, a girl who was raped at the age of eleven by two men who then cut out her tongue so that she could not identify her attackers. Garp spends time visiting his mother and the people who live at her center, including transgender ex- football player Roberta Muldoon. Garp becomes a devoted parent and successful fiction writer, while Helen becomes a college professor. The two marry and eventually have two children, Duncan and Walt. Meanwhile, Garp's first novel is published, which impresses Helen.
She uses the proceeds from the book to fund a center at her home for troubled and abused women. Her book is a partial autobiography, called Sexual Suspect, and is an overnight sensation. Immediately after, Jenny decides to write a book on her observations of lust and human sexuality. She interviews a prostitute and offers to hire her for Garp. His mother observes his interest in sex and is intellectually curious about it, having little more than clinical interest herself. Garp's writing piques the interest of Helen Holm, the daughter of the school's wrestling coach. Garp grows up and becomes interested in wrestling and fiction writing, topics his mother has little interest in. She names the resultant child after Garp. A nurse during World War II, she encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp ("Garp" being all he is able to utter) who was severely brain damaged in combat, whose morbid priapism allows her to rape him and get impregnated. Garp is the out-of-wedlock son of a feminist mother, Jenny Fields, who wanted a child but not a husband.
For their roles, John Lithgow and Glenn Close (in her film debut) were respectively nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 55th Academy Awards. Written by Steve Tesich, it is based on the 1978 novel The World According to Garp by John Irving. The World According to Garp is a 1982 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams in the title role.
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