The Role of Women

Woman: 14

Mother: 2

Mom: 1

Wife: 1

Man: 184

Father: 23

First thoughts: 

• It's a mans world
• Women are seen as weaker so may not survive an apocalypse 
• The man blames the woman for his loneliness
• Woman symbolize life and reproduction (with no more women there is no life left.) 
• The woman is dead so she cant really be in the book
• The boy is more dependent on his dad which is the opposite to the normality where it is seen that the mother has a stronger relationship
• It isn't oedipal
• You must be a man to survive
• Women aren't put in a good light 
• Male characters are weak and ignorant. Where as women are strong and that's why she killed herself
• Men caused the apocalypse so maybe they should be the ones that have to carry on living 

P.G 17

• He still doesn't hate her although he yearns for her and not in just a sexual way
• They obviously had a decent amount of money because they can go to big theaters
• He is now realizing how much he's lost 
• It let's you know about the mans past and how there used to be a women in the life
• He doesn't want to remember her constantly because he knows it will upset him

P.G 54

• They are both showing a more mature relationship because they are having a baby
• She shows her dependency on the man by asking 'What is happening?'
• Life and death in one section because the apocalypse is`about to happen yet she is pregnant which shows a sign of new life
• The birth is never mentioned of the boy, maybe see as sad because it means someone else was dependent on them 

P.G 56

• The boy wanting his 'mom' back
• The man regrets not keeping the woman in their lives because things might be better for them if they had
• The boy wishes he was dead like his mom because he longs for a different type of attention maybe a bit more affection

P.G 57

• The man and the woman are arguing over whether she should kill herself
• She knows what will happen in the future and she would rather die now than in the future when things will get worse for them
• The woman makes herself seem like a horrible person who's cheating on him and is running off with death, this could be to make it easier for the man.