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...Robber Bride...
...Robber Bride is no sweet, fancifully updated fairy tale. There are no easy lessons, no simple explanations, no transparent role playing. In fact, the book ends with its most urgent questions unanswered...
...done. That is how Roz, a brassy CEO, and her terrible twins compromise to make their bedtime stories more acceptable. "They opt for women in every role," even if this means making life for these heroines more complex or uncomfortable. For instance, when playing their own version of "The Robber Bridegroom," "they dress their Barbie dolls up [in bridal clothes and] hurl the brides over the stair railings or drown them in the bathtub." But while the dolls effortlessly return to life, the people in the novel, like the three pigs in the twin's version of the classic children...
...tone of the novel is not vindictive. The Robber Bride is not the self-indulgence of a man-hater run amok. Rather it seeks to exploit and break down, sometimes clumsily, the myths surrounding the first generation of the women's movement. Atwood's tongue-in-cheek allusions enable her to wittily explore the complexities of gender relations in this generation. At times, however, her acuity yields to carelessness. This is most notable in her depiction of Charis, and her airy speculations on numerology; Charis relates that seven is "two threes and a one, which [she] prefers because threes...
...Robber Bridegroom," the protagonist appears to be a perfect gentleman, but in reality, he is a cannibal who preys upon innocent young maidens. How does this translate with a female character? Atwood answers that you must read to find...