ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how Wesker presents a convincing picture of certain aspects of women's experience, showing women's attempts to struggle against constraints which are not biologically innate but are imposed by society. While perceiving women's difficulties, he does not see them as a peculiarly feminine problem but as the problem of any thinking subject caught in the web of social expectations. The constraints of stereotyped femininity are felt particularly in individual male-female relationships, but outside such relationships the women tend to struggle with the constraints of the social order as the disadvantaged men characters do. In the Annie Wobbler plays, the first and last sections can be seen as demonstrating this common human plight. Annabella is herself a writer, and shares Wesker's initials AW, with more opportunity for identification with the author than Annie Wobbler the charwoman.
