Summary: In his book, J. Brooks examines the impotent significance of same sex rivalries in The Robber Bride as well as the aftermath of the powerful dominant beings who take control over the weak and vulnerable. This book proposes that Margaret Atwood wrote her novel in hopes of exposing the dreadful outcome of what women experience in relations to infidelity, treacheries and the breakup of a once special friendship. It accentuates the correlation between the manipulative and destructive power of someone of high status and influence over a lower class subject who in turn lets themselves be susceptible and prone to unfair and poor treatment on the basis of not wanting to be the one who puts someone else in their place in fear of being called
