Rabbit, Run | Other Characters
Janice Angstrom
Rabbit's wife, who is pregnant with their second child in the beginning of this novel, is also bored and disillusioned but fills up the void in her life with alcohol and television. She simply wants Rabbit to behave like an ordinary husband and can't understand why he has the urge to run. In the morning, Updike writes,
She feels the workday approaching like an army of light, feels the dark ridged houses beneath her as potentially stirring, waking, opening like castles to send forth their men, and regrets that her own husband is unable to...
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