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Stats_n_PoliSci t1_iyd8u6i wrote

Reply to comment by CJ_Thompson in The Time Traveler's Wife and the State of Romance in 2003 by ThrowingSomeBruddahs

I never saw Clare as primarily a homemaker.

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Orbeef t1_iydh793 wrote

She had a job but literally her entire life revolved around him, when she would see him next, where/when he was, erc.

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vivahermione t1_iydq5q2 wrote

It's been a long time since I read it, but I'd definitely agree that this was true at the end of her life. He said when he >!died that he'd see her again in her 80's, but he also told her, "Don't wait for me." And yet, she did. She stayed in the same house, never remarried, and I got the impression she'd lived for this meeting. You could argue that it was her choice, but my heart broke for her. I wanted more for her than to mourn the rest of her life!<.

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CJ_Thompson t1_iyezuhj wrote

Just a generalization of the theme. Men have adventures and lives outside the home where women stay back and have lives at home somewhat dependent on men.

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ThrowingSomeBruddahs OP t1_iyf9h2u wrote

And I don’t think my intention was to call her a homemaker, merely to point out the fantasy of domesticity in Henry’s narrative and then to make the claim that in terms of the metaphor of time-travel, Clare stays “at home” in linear time the way that women wait for men to come home from the sea. And, in fact, this is what Clare says herself in the prologue.

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