![]() ![]() “I always equate it to the end of The Truman Show, when he realizes he’s in an enclosed plexiglass dome,” she says. When Wolitzer watched The Wife for the first time, she felt a fresh intimacy with the character. ![]() But The Wife, like The Female Persuasion, benefits from the reality that, as the novelist puts it, “the conversation has heightened.” ![]() “These are not new ideas–writing about sexism, male power, misogyny,” she says. Wolitzer points to her most recent adult novel, The Female Persuasion, published just months into the #MeToo movement last year and buzzy for its timely themes, including sexual assault. One could argue there’s something perfectly 2019 about an old, good book by a woman finally getting its due at a time when–to put it bluntly–old, bad men are finally being called out for their sins. “He has to seem like a jerk but also get second billing.” (Jonathan Pryce took the role, and played it well.) “It was very hard to get a man to play a jerk in a film called The Wife,” Wolitzer says. One problem had to do with the tension central to the book–the power imbalance between a talented woman and her childish but esteemed husband. The Wife, about the inner life of a woman married to a revered novelist, was optioned soon after it was published, but the movie wasn’t made for more than a decade. ![]()
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