Ordinary People by Judith Guest | Resources

Ordinary People For Further Study

Saul L Brown, "Adolescents and Family Systems," in Youth Suicide, edited by Michael L. Peck, Norman L Farberow, and Robert E Litman, Springer Publishing Co, 1985, pp. 71-79.

Brown discusses family systems and their relationship to the individual dynamics that may lead adolescents to commit suicide.

Fady Hajal, "Family Mythology. Ordinary People," in Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. I, 1983, pp. 3-8. Hajal applies the concept of Family Mythology to Robert Redford's award-winning film adaptation of Guest's novel.

Caroline Hunt, "Dead Athletes and Other Martyrs," in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol 16, No 4, Winter 1991-1992, pp. 241-45.

An article placing Ordinary People in the context of adolescent literature about death and dying.

Melvin Maddocks, "Suburban Furies," in Time, Vol 108, No 3, July 19, 1976, pp. 68, 70.

Maddox describes Ordinary People as a "good but thoroughly conventional novel".

Don O'Briant, "Guest...
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