Roberta Garp Character Analysis

Roberta is one of Garp’s friends and is someone who lives at Dog’s Head Harbor where Jenny fields takes care of some of the patients. Roberta is a transgender and she just recently went through her surgeries to become the woman she felt that she was in her heart. Roberta has always known she wanted to be a girl, she said “ I dreamed about having love made to me, by a man, but in the dreams I was always a woman.” Jenny helped her through the most difficult time in her life which was during her change. She really Confides with what Jenny had to say about her changes and the women she really is. Also how no matter what anybody tells Roberta, if she feels like she is a women, then that's what she is.

Roberta gets shot down a lot by other people