Heidi Chronicles

Paper #1 Heidi Holland and Feminism in The Heidi Chronicles Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles attempts to demonstrate the futility of the women’s rights movement, and its incapacity to fulfill the needs of all women. We trace the main character, Heidi, from the time she develops an interest in men, 1964, to the time where she gives up on men and decides to fulfill her own needs for a family by adopting a child. Wasserstein …showed first 75 words of 659 total…

…showed last 75 words of 659 total…he is in love with Heidi; he kisses her on his wedding day. He says to Heidi: “Is she an A+ like you? No. But I don’t want to come home to an A+. A- maybe, but not A+”(Wasserstein 201). He knows that Heidi embodies a multitude of qualities that he both adores and are somewhat intimidating. Therefore, he chooses to marry Lisa Freidlander, the opposite of all the things Heidi represents to Scoop.