Getting over a traumatic experience can be troubling to anyone, especially when the experience deals with a close family member or friend. Whether the problem is your parents beating you, the fact that you don’t have any friends, or even if you just feel unloved in your life, the product can be just as destructive as the product of ’s problems in Judith Guest’s Ordinary People. The novel begins with a very routine, troubled boy who has recently tried to kill himself because of his brother’s death in a boating accident, and ends with ....