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Titels van Ira Levin

• A kiss before dying (22)

  1953

• Rosemary's baby (13)

  1967

• Sliver (2)

  1991

• The boys from Brazil (24)

  1976

• The Stepford wives (7)

  1972

• This perfect day / De dag der dagen (3)

  1970

Technisch Leesverslag

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

1. Schrijver, Titel, Genre
a. Schrijver: Ira Levin.
b. Titel: The Stepford wives, Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 2007
(eerste druk 1972, Amerika)
c. Genre: Roman.Thriller.

2. Verhaaltechniek
1. Ruimte: Het speelt zich af in Stepford en heeft een normale tijdsverloop met soms tijdversnellingen.
2. Verhaalfiguren: Joanna Ebenhart is de hoofdpersoon in dit verhaal. Ze is een vrouw die in Stepford komt wonen en van alles te weten komt over de vrouwen in Stepford.
3. Vertelwijze: Het is een personaal verhaal.
4. Motieven: Joanna wil weten waarom de vrouwen in Stepford zo bezeten zijn van hun huishouden en alleen maar kunnen poetsen. Ze wil weten waarom de vrouwen na 3 maanden plotseling veranderen na een weekendje met hun man alleen te zijn geweest.
5. Thema: De (verandering van) vrouwen in Stepford.
6. Titelverklaring: het gaat om de vrouwen van Stepford in deze roman.
7. Schrijfstijl: vanuit een hij/zij perspectief.

De Samenvatting
Joanna, Walter, Pete and Kim Ebenhart just moved from the big city to the quiet village of Stepford. Joanna has to get used to Stepford because it’s so quiet and the women don’t have much time to show her around or to get to know each other because of all their housework. In Stepford there is a club especially for men which is named the ‘Men’s Association’. Walter decides to join the club and give Joanna time for herself so she can do her hobbies and the house. Her hobby is photography and occasionally she sells some photos for a good price.
After giving a interview to a local papier she gets contact with Bobbie. Bobbie is mother and wife and (like Joanna) she just moved here only a month ago. They get to know each other and become good friends. They want get some women together so they can start a Women’s Association. But none of the women living in Stepford have interest in it or simply doesn’t have the time because of the housework they have to do. Joanna and Bobbie don’t understand why the women don’t take time for themselves and only do housework.
Joanna finds a clipping from a newspaper from a long time ago in the basement of their house. In this piece she reads that there had once been a Women’s Association in Stepford. She also reads that almost all the women of Stepford had been in it. When she goes to some of the women she asks them about the association but they ‘pretend’ they don’t know anything about it. Meanwhile Bobbie introduces Charmaine to Joanna and they become friends. Together they play some tennis once in a while on the tennis court in Charmain’s yard. Charmaine doesn’t like the way the Stepford women are behaving, she thinks they just are a bit crazy. But suddenly, after a weekend alone with her husband, Charmaine gets just as interested in her housework as the other Stepford women. Charmaine doesn’t call Joanna for a tennis game or other things. She doesn’t have time for her or Bobbie because of her housework. She also changes her tennis court into a golf course for her husband.
Bobbie tells Joanna about a article she read in the paper about polluted drinking water which effects the behaviour of the people who drink it. Stepford’s neighbourhood has a lot of factories and maybe that’s the reason for the way the Stepford women behave. Bobbie decides she doesn’t drink any tapwater anymore. Joanna writes a letter to the ‘Department of Health’ but they doesn’t take it seriously. Joanna and Bobbie want a explanation for this behaviour and go on a furthur research. They find out that Charmaine became a ‘Stepford wife’ exactly when she was four months in Stepford. Bobbie has been there almost four months so she wants to move out of Stepford as fast as she can. But after spending a weekend alone with her husband Bobbie also changed in a mysterious way into a perfect housewife, a Stepford wife. She claims she wanted to improve her life, so she wants go all the way for her family.
Joanna was shocked and she wants to get out of Stepford right away. So she goes on a search to find a new house in another village. That night Joanna goes to the library to search for newspaper with information about the Women’s Association. She finds a piece which tells something about the canceling of the Women’s Association, which was just a few years ago! None of the women had told her that, which she finds a bit weird.
When she returns home later that evening Walter is waiting for her. He has brought the children to a friend so they can be just alone for the weekend. Walter is concerned but mostly mad that she turned home so late. He tells her to lie down a bit because she’s confused. Joanna listens to him reluctantly. When she get to her room she makes a plan to escape because she knows what he’s going to do with her but she won’t let him! She’s doesn’t trust him anymore. She tries to escape trough the window but that doesn’t work. So she sneaks downstairs and then out of the house. The only friend she can go to is Ruthanne, she’s a new woman who just moved to Stepford.
On her way to Ruthanne she get caught by three members of the Men’s Association who were searching for her. Joanna refuses to cooperate, but the men want to prove her wrong. Joanna’s convinced all women in Stepford are changed in robots after four months. They get her to Bobbie’s house and Bobbie likes to cooperate. She proves that she has blood in her body by cutting her finger.
After a month Ruthanne meets Joanna in the supermarket. Ruthanne is speechless when she sees her. Joanna, the women who informed her about the weird changes in Stepford, turned into a Stepford Wife! Ruthanne goes home, where her husband waits for her. He brought the children to their friends, he wants a weekend for themselves...