There’s a moment when Lauren reflects on her unshaven legs and muses that “she has, she supposes, grown lax about shaving, a married woman. A wife.” She is, of course, operating off some preconceived notion about what it means to be married, to be a woman who has “let herself go” ever so slightly once ensconced in the comfort of marriage. What other assumptions about marriage, being a wife, or the concept of “wifely duties” does she have? Do you find they ring true, or do they not? Which of these have you absorbed throughout your life?
I think the preconceived notion of the house is the woman’s domain and everything outside is the mans, rings true in most instances. The woman cooks, cleans and makes most of the plans (ie birthdays, parties, friends to dinner, etc) and the man maintains the vehicles, mows the grass, cleans the garage, does the upkeep on the house. Dependent on the couple more of those tasks are shared, but it is an easy routine to fall into.