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Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is influenced by "The Robber Bridegroom", a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil bridegroom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. However in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and pieces her loose in the lives of three friends: Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three "have lost men, heart, money, and time with their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times, and in various mental disguises, Zenia has insinuated her way to their lives and basically demolished them. To Tony, who almost lost her hubby and jeopardized her academics career, Zenia is "a lurking adversary commando". To Roz, who did lose her hubby and almost her journal, Zenia is "a cool and treacherous bitch". To Charis, who lost a boyfriend, quarts of veg juice, and some pet birds, Zenia is a kind of zombie, maybe "soulless" (Lorrie Moore, New York Times Reserve Review). In love and conflict, illusion and deceit, Zenia's subterranean malevolence needs us deep into her opponents' pasts.
