Politics Quotes in The Corrections

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

"It killed my dad when I was eleven [...] and everything made sense. There was always an enemy with a big red target on his back. There was big evil daddy U.S.S.R. that we could all hate, until the nineties." (5.951)

Gitanas grew up in a black-and-white political environment: The government that is actively oppressing his people is bad and the ones that are helping them are good. By the early 2000s, though, things are nowhere near as simple.