Fake it, I scream at myself inside my head. You must remember how.Let's get this over with or you'll be here all night. Bestir yourself. Move yourflesh around, breathe audibly. It's the least you can do
She additionally feels the power dynamic here, even in a time where she is supposed to feel equally in desire -- in sex. She acts, again, performing a duty and not participating in desire
y arms around him.It's only a job, he said, trying to soothe me.
Men don't understand, he is patronising her in the way that a job is not just a job but a sense of power, of individuality and a duty, which Serena Joy keeps trying to find in her knitting and in her garden.
Many of the Wives havesuch gardens, it's something for them to order and maintain and care for
The syndetic listing makes it seem like this is an impersonal law, that women need to feel a sense of duty to stay sane. However, it is all artificial because Serena Joy and other wives have no real duty, only a pretend duty.