An ignorant and lifeless friend of Mildred, Mrs. Phelps is another victim of oppression which she doesn’t even know about. The same as other women in the city, she has no emotional bond with the reality spending all of her time on the simulators which substitute anything real. Having been married for three times, Mrs. Phelps doesn’t seem to care about the destiny of her third husband at all. But the same as Mildred, somewhere deep inside she feels that something goes wrong in her shallow life. When Guy reads her a poem, she bursts into tears.
Mrs. Phelps in the Essays
Author: Arron Johnston