The heroes of "Freedom" of Патти and Уолтер are democratic, образованны, care of environment and deprived prejudices| for them ideal family. But good intentions do not rescue them from shocks the relations of free people are fraught that in family and in society. Exactly, the sympathetically written heroes absorbed in itself the lines of generation, becoming the witness of September, 11, intruding to Iraq, excrescence of multinational corporations and financial crisis 2008 year. In a novel fixing his glory of the main American prose writer, Jonathan Франзен talks about unattainability of veritable freedom and about that, how often we sacrifice above all for the sake of her ghost.