Theme: Feminisim

Feminism is a huge factor in many of Margaret Atwood's novels. Especially in The Robber Bride. She portrays the main character Zenia to be some horrible person who goes behind her so called "friends" backs and she cheats with every single one of their significant others. She does this to show the other women that you can not trust anyone, especially men. She does this because she is a feminist and doesn't think that her friends should have faith or believe in men because she doesn't. However, after trying to show her friends that you can't trust men, they all grow to hate her because they are now all without husbands and boyfriends because they all cheated with Zenia. Once Zenia dies, the other three women, Roz, Charis, and Tony all still meet each other at their local coffee shop and talk about what is going on in their lives and sometimes they talk about Zenia, however, whenever they talk about her they always get this feeling that she is in the room, or listening in on their conversation because Zenia has come back to haunt them.