The Stepford Wives is an extraordinary feminist horror novel. At the story’s close, Joanna is gliding slowly through a supermarket, telling an acquaintance that she no longer does photography because “housework’s enough for me”.īeyond breadwinners and homemakers, we need to examine how same-sex couples divide housework But soon after, her voice vanishes from the novel, as she too has been transformed. Joanna agrees to see a psychiatrist, who prescribes her a sedative. He tells her the women of Stepford have changed onlyīecause they realised they’d been lazy and negligent It wouldn’t hurt you to look in a mirror once in a while. The women’s personalities have been erased, but their families don’t seem to mind – Bobbie’s son is delighted because his mother now makes hot breakfasts, while the husbands are thrilled because their “new” wives love sex and housework.įearful that she “won’t be me next summer”, Joanne realises Walter has also changed.
I’ve decided to do my job conscientiously, the way Dave does his. I realised I was being awfully sloppy and self-indulgent.
Joanna and Bobbie realise, with mounting horror, that the Stepford women have literally been replaced by robots, in a scheme masterminded by their husbands – and they too, will be similarly transformed. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing suburban housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Watching one of them admiring her washing, “like an actress in a commercial”, Joanna thinks The women of Stepford transform into glassy-eyed housewives within months of arriving. of chases or violence 10% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30% Descript.The 1975 film of The Stepford Wives is as iconic as Ira Levin’s novel. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book Descript.
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