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Jordan (Buck) Jarrett. Conrad's brother; Beth and Cal's son. Though he only appears in flashbacks and secondhand references, Buck is arguably the most important character in the novel. His death in a sailing accident triggers the emotional hardship through which the Jarretts struggle throughout Ordinary People .
ORDINARY PEOPLE is a hard-hitting movie about emotional honesty. It's about the courage and emotional vocabulary that are necessary for the connections and intimacy we need to be able to survive challenges like the tragedy faced by this family. The characters represent a wide variety of approaches and abilities to emotional openness and "control."
May 26, 2023 · Ordinary People is the story of an upper-upper middle-class family dealing with two traumatic events. The family's oldest son Buck ( Scott Doebler) has drowned in a boating accident. Younger ...
Aug 14, 2001 · Robert Redford’s 1980 directorial debut Ordinary People is a powerful character study about a family dealing with grief. The film’s title tells the audience what to expect, a film about ordinary people who normally live ordinary lives, assuming that one considers ordinary people to be white, upper-middle-class Americans who live in the suburbs.
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Ordinary People is set in Lake Forest, Illinois, during the 1970s. The action focuses on the Jarrett family--Calvin and Beth and their son Conrad. Before the action of the book begins, there was a second Jarrett son--Buck--who was killed in a boating accident over a year before the novel begins. After the death of Buck, Conrad became deeply ...
Jul 19, 1976 · Ordinary People alternates points-of-view between a father and a son. The father, Cal, is a successful attorney who is attempting to hold his disintegrating family together. Cal’s son, eighteen-year-old Conrad, has been dealing with depression since his brother drowned in a boating accident.
