For all intents and purposes Joyce is the perfect wife, she and her husband have a lovely home and two beautiful children. However, Joyce isn’t happy, her husband is controlling and clearly a little bit strange; she can’t even water the plants when she is on her period?!? She informs us that she has ‘kissed him for the last time’ but no other details. So when she goes missing my mind is immediately drawn to the Gone Girl story of woman faking her own death to escape.
However, I wonder whether there just a red herring. Would she leave her children behind unattended? The youngest child is very young is this actually some post-partum depression going undiagnosed because it’s the 50s. Then there’s the suspicious woman at the end of the first look who the detective seems immediately unsure of.
In addition, there is an element of racism, which for 1950s suburban America would have been fully expected but that story must also be going to play out further.
All very interesting! I feel like I really need to read on, 30 pages were not enough!
However, I wonder whether there just a red herring. Would she leave her children behind unattended? The youngest child is very young is this actually some post-partum depression going undiagnosed because it’s the 50s. Then there’s the suspicious woman at the end of the first look who the detective seems immediately unsure of.
In addition, there is an element of racism, which for 1950s suburban America would have been fully expected but that story must also be going to play out further.
All very interesting! I feel like I really need to read on, 30 pages were not enough!