Antonia Fremont – “Tony” – is exploring where the “story of Zenia” ought to begin…”someplace bruised, and very tangled.
In the opening to The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood sets up the slightly ironic self-referential tone of the novel. In the end, we choose our point, arbitrarily: “A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis.” Atwood reminds us that the story could easily end elsewhere, that endings are random, and that, for her protagonists (but not for Zenia), life moves forward and love, whether for a husband or for children, remains.Īpril 2003 (Originally published Jan 1996)
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