The Robber Bride | Characters
Atwood's four principal characters have been criticized as mere "types" by some critics: Tony as the intellectual, Charis the fuzzy-headed New Age mystic, Roz the lusty and flamboyant entrepreneur, and Zenia "la belle dame sans merci." Yet in the case of the novel's protagonists, type gives way to full-throated characterization as Atwood provides extensive histories of each that not only delineate the themes of childhood victimization and feminine self-doubt that weave the separate lines of the narrative together but expose the psychic "other" that each develops as a survival strategy (a...
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