29 pages • 58 minutes read
Margaret AtwoodA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Real estate values are one of the few things, other than characters, that gets repeated in the story. Real estate values are in Section A, where they go up; in Section C, where John and Madge buy a house “just before the real estate values went up” (44); and in Section D, where real estate values go down with the impending arrival of the tidal wave.
Perhaps more than anything, real estate values—traditionally an ample part of the figurative health of any capitalist society—are very much played down in Atwood’s story. In Section A, where accord seems to be reached between male and female, real estate values rise. Looked at in a literal sense, this would seem to have largely no bearing on the events in Section A, save for the fact that John and Mary can afford help in raising their children. However, this rise in real estate values can symbolically be seen as an increase in social currency once gender equality has been located.
The John in Section C has also bought his house, with Madge, before real estate values went up—this is presumably at a moment before John begins his affair with Mary.
By Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood
Death By Landscape
Death By Landscape
Margaret Atwood
Hag-Seed
Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold
Margaret Atwood
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
Margaret Atwood
Lady Oracle
Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood
Life Before Man
Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood
MaddAddam
MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Rape Fantasies
Rape Fantasies
Margaret Atwood
Siren Song
Siren Song
Margaret Atwood
Stone Mattress
Stone Mattress
Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
The Circle Game
The Circle Game
Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman
The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood
The Landlady
The Landlady
Margaret Atwood