Helen is moderately pleased with Garp's story, marries him, and the two fall in love sometime later. Helen graduates from college in only two years and accepts a teaching position at a women's college while Garp works on his first novel.
In the meantime, John Wolf publishes Jenny's book and Garp is especially embarrassed by the chapter addressing lust because it is an emotion that Jenny has never experienced in her entire life. Jenny has the good fortune to produce a book on a topic that is relevant to the mood of the country, especially women readers who want the opportunity to make their own life choices, and her book becomes hugely popular.
Soon after, Jenny's mother becomes very ill and Jenny moves into the family's Dog's Head Harbor estate to care for her. Women.....
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