Incident #6: Just like the happy slaves of old, when the master of the house -- Mike -- comes home, Alice is right there to greet him. She actually comes out of the kitchen (where we find out a little later she's making dinner) and meets him about halfway in the living room. In the role of 2nd wife, she asks him why he's home so early. There's a normality to how they behave that makes one cringe. "Oh, hello dear! My my my you're home quite early from the office, aren't you? You normally don't come home this early but I'm so happy to see you!" Oh, how I wish she could see the terrible choices she's making! Stop it, Alice, stop it!!!!!
Incident #7: In the same scene, as soon as Peter appears (coming home from school), Alice stops what she's doing to happily (and without much thought because by now it's so automatic) attend to getting his after school snack -- a plate heaping full of cookies (looks like chocolate chip). When Peter expresses his wish to do a magic act, Mike is reluctant. Alice jumps in to defend Peter, always trying to be on the side of the kids when she can especially if it won't hurt them in any way -- yet another 2nd mother attribute. When he agrees to it, Alice goes back into slave mode and becomes Mike's "yes man" agreeing with whatever the hell he just said regardless of what it is.
Incident #8: Still in the same scene, Alice happily volunteers to sew a cape for Peter's magic act. I don't know much about sewing, but it would seem to me that even the simplest of sewing projects takes a substantial amount of effort just to get going! I mean, you need to have the material (which means getting it somehow -- maybe there's some on hand, but more likely she'll have to go and get it), you need to set up your sewing machine (no small task!), design the whole thing, cut the piece(s), and then put it all together! She does this without a 2nd thought at all and of course gets no thanks for it. She then goes back into 2nd mother mode when Bobby mouths off -- threatening him with a pair of salad tongs.
Incident #9: Alice assumes the 2nd wife role and is in her "travel cloths" transporting Cindy to the school to assist Peter. The first thing I thought was "where the hell did Cindy get that outfit?" Alice answered me by saying that she took the wings off of her fair princess outfit. Everyone just laughs, but even this kind of thing requires pretty substantial effort on Alice's part. She needs to quickly figure out what, if anything, can be done, find the outfit, make the necessary changes/removals, help Cindy dressed into it. During the act, Alice happily and proudly looks on.
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