In these kinds of movies women protagonists were given the voice-over in order to lead the narration, as it was for instance in Rebecca or in A Letter to Three Wives [1]. Add to cart. Content 1. Introduction 2. Bibliography 1. Sign in to write a comment. Read the ebook. Die De- Konstruktion weiblichen Allt Die Darstellung des Hausfrauenalltags Sozioprudente Handlungen in der Serie Does she have any feelings about what her friends and family are up to?
Will she ever be free? All that remains is her memory. When other characters die on Wisteria Lane, sometimes they get the greatest honor of narrating in place of Mary Alice for the day. Right now, I have my memories, but I also have my suburban chores and none of the other things that make up a life; tangible relationships with people, new experiences, the world outside.
Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. And while it's possibly not been influential in all ways - as far as I'm aware, the rate of husband murder or child imprisonment has not risen sharply over the last five years — if the trend for shiny hair and home-baking has risen, I don't think anyone would try to argue that that was a bad thing.
Voiceovers are nothing new, of course, but one of the marked things about Desperate Housewives is the detached narration; the fact that the dots are joined by a character who is all knowing and all seeing.
And dead, in the chase of Mary Alice - who is remarkably well informed for someone who killed herself before the series even began. Other series have followed suit with the omniscient storyteller - the now sadly deceased Pushing Daisies has someone who knows the past, present and future of all the characters, as well as knowing, at all times, what the facts are.
Gossip Girl is another great example, whose narrator is not only all knowing and all seeing, because she is of course a blogger, but also has the ability to play her characters like puppets, with one little tap of her keyboard - oh, the dizzying power of blogging. The point of these third-party storytellers is that they are witness to everything the audience sees on screen and everything they don't whether the characters know about it or not, and they use that to advance the story without taking up too much dialogue or precious advert time.
Beth abides by her mother's advice, and brings up the death of Martha Huber to her husband after sex. Paul convinces Beth that he didn't kill Martha despite what Felicia Tilman might say to others, and that Martha herself had said Felicia was unstable and a liar and thus no one should believe what she says. Paul proves his point by reminding Beth that Felicia cut off her own two fingers to frame Paul. During Thanksgiving, Beth tells Paul a sad story about one of her past Thanksgiving meals with her mother, and Paul, still unaware that Felicia is Beth's mother, tells her that her mother sounds like a woman who isn't very happy.
Beth agrees with this. The latter then has a talk with her mother and seems sure that Paul didn't kill Martha, and Felicia can see that Beth has really fallen for Paul, so she lashes out at her daughter, and scares her.
Felicia is then taken away by the police officers, as her startled daughter looks on. For that to happen, he needs the approval of half the households in the neighborhood, which is why he's been buying so many houses lately. He only needs one more house to get half the votes, and thus puts his neighbors in an awkward position, for if none of them sells their house, Paul's plan falls through, but if one does, everyone else is harmed.
Mary Alice tells us that we can't always trust our neighbors, and when we find that the neighbors might be up to no good, maybe the time has come for us to move. With this said, her friends, Susan , Lynette , Bree and Gabrielle , rush out to convince the fellow residents of Wisteria Lane not to sell their homes to Paul Young. The latter, however, isn't too preoccupied, as indicated by his first wife.
He then tricks Lee McDermott and Bob Hunter into selling him their home , thus turning the rest of the neighborhood against the resident gay couple. Afterwards, during the opening ceremony for the halfway house, the residents of several neighboring streets show up to protest, and a riot ensues, which reaches a catastrophic outcome when Bree shoots her gun into the air to come to her boyfriend's aid and the mob panics.
Susan falls victim to a stampede, the halfway house is partially destroyed, and Bob and Lee are attacked by angry rioters. Following the riot, Paul Young takes pride in what happened and leaves his house at night to look at the ravaged street. Mary Alice's widower is then shot in the chest whilst picking up his medallion, given to him for opening the halfway house, and is left for dead on the street, albeit with a smile on his face However, Paul's second wife, Beth , had only one suspect: her mother, Felicia Tilman.
Beth visits her in prison, but Felicia seems surprised to hear about the shooting incident, and admits to not having an idea about it. Beth is still suspicious, and Felicia calls her ally Mike Delfino. However, Mike himself didn't do it either. Following the riot and the shooting, life must go on for those living on the lane , but the narrator tells us that life doesn't always get better for everyone following a disaster, referring to Susan's newfound kidney problems.
Meanwhile, the detectives wonder if maybe Beth shot Paul, and do some digging, only to discover that she is Felicia's daughter. They share this news with Paul, who, despite being shocked, pretends to know everything. Bree is moved by this, and asks Beth to come over one night, when she is entertaining for her friends. The remaining women are not happy about this, and Beth realizes that she should go, but Bree tells her not to, then asking for a sidebar with the other gals. In the kitchen, Bree brings up Mary Alice's story, a woman whose pain they neglected to notice and they all can recall her story didn't have a happy ending.
She asks them whether they want the same thing to happen to Beth. The girls decide to give it another go, and decide to become friendlier towards Beth. However, Beth soon discovers a gun planted in Bree's living room - a gun similar to the one Paul was shot with.
Beth thinks that the women did it and are trying to frame her, but the ladies think that Beth did it and is trying to frame them.
However, we learn that the gun had been planted there by the flower delivery guy, who is none other than Mary Alice and Paul's foster son, Zach Young The latter arrives at the hospital to pick him up, and he suggests that they take a vacation, and head to a secluded cabin in the woods. She loves the idea. One night, Paul is unable to sleep, and Beth notices this. He tells her that he has so much hatred inside of him, for his neighbors who forsaked him, for his son who disowned him, and for whoever tried to kill him.
He admits that he is tired of hating people but doesn't know how to stop. Beth tells him to focus on the good things in life, like his marriage to her. He admits that all he wanted was for her to love him, and she makes it clear to him that she does. Paul feels further aggravated by this, unable to believe that she actually loves him, and keeps talking about their vacation plans, as it becomes clear to us that he wishes to murder Beth in the woods.
However, the detectives handling his shooting case show up with the gun Bree gave to the police, the one planted in her living room, and Paul recognizes it instantly - it's the gun Mary Alice used to kill herself He then seems to know who shot him and calls off his plans with Beth, then focusing on something else: finding his son.
His foster father, Paul , goes to the mansion that Noah Taylor left his biological grandson, only to find that it's gone into foreclosure. Paul then consults with Mike Delfino , Zach's biological father, hoping to find out where their shared son is. Mike, reluctant to help Paul because of his hatred towards him, tells him he doesn't know where Zach is.
However, we find out that Mike recently met with Zach to ask him for money, due to his recent financial problems, but Zach didn't have much money left to loan him. Mike picks up on the fact that Zach isn't doing very well.
He then visits him again, and finds out that he's both on drugs and shot Paul. Mike comes clean to Paul, and the two team up to try and help their son. However, when she is one night suddenly awakened because her twins can't tend to simple tasks, she grows tired of it and decides that the time has come for them to move out.
Meanwhile, Paul and Mike take an uncooperative Zach to rehab, and it gets ugly when Paul finally confronts his son regarding the shooting incident.
Later, at his house , Paul confronts his second wife, Beth , asking her why she felt the need to bring a gun into their home. Beth doesn't have a proper response, and puts the gun away, but the tension is still present. Paul visits his son in rehab, and demands him to tell his father why he shot him. Zach says he wanted his father to die, because he hated him all his life.
Paul says that isn't true. Zach says the hate was always a part of him, and it started getting bigger, and one day he realized that such hate was all he was. Paul says that was the drugs' fault, but Zach explains that it was his father's fault, because that's what he does best, he turns people against him, he's evil.
Paul says Zach has no idea what he is, how he feels or what he's been through. He then refers to the day Mary Alice shot herself, but Zach says he can't use that as an excuse for what he is, because he is the reason his mom committed suicide. Paul tells him that isn't true. Zach realizes he really hurt Paul. He then tells him trying to kill him was stupid, because him being alive and knowing the truth is way better.
Paul tells him his mother loved him, to which he replies no one could ever love Paul. That night, Paul kicks his wife out of his house, revealing to her that he knows her secret. He gives her back her gun and Beth is left all alone with nowhere to go, torn apart from the man she loved but who didn't believe her love. This relates to how Gabrielle feels Lee is being too pushy with his adopted daughter, Jenny. Lee then challenges Gaby to see whose daughter does better at the school talent show, and Gaby accepts the challenge Meanwhile, Beth attempts to move back in with her husband, as though nothing ever happened, but Paul dissuades her when he finally confesses to her that he did in fact kill her aunt Martha.
All the while, Susan is told by her doctor that her kidney malfunctions have reached a new low, and she might be close to dying. This prompts the ladies of the lane to do a blood drive and search for possible donors, and Bree finds out that she is a match Bree meets with the depressed young woman, after learning that she and Mary Alice's widower are no longer a couple, and tells her that, even though Beth's a match, Bree herself would like to donate the kidney, because she's been feeling disconnected from God lately and she feels this good deed would help both Susan and her.
Beth, having just been disowned by her own mother , doesn't reply at all. However, and as Mary Alice tells us about how we are all always on the lookout for meaning in our brief lives, Beth does later on walk into the hospital, deliver the forms for her kidney transplant Following the manslaughter of Alejandro Perez , perpetrated by Carlos , the women find themselves co-conspirators in a murder cover-up.
Shortly after the burial of the cadaver, Mary Alice lets us know that the women and Carlos are all overcome with guilt and fear, as they try to carry on with their lives. A month later, they're still desperate, and Bree tries her best to hide the crime from her detective boyfriend, Chuck Vance , and to help her friends deal with their sorrow. Once they all reach an understanding that they will never be able to truly move on or to even tell anyone, a small wave of relief still manages to surface, but the wave is splashed to inexistence when Bree opens up her mailbox one night to find a letter sent by an anonymous individual Bree's world falls apart at the sight of the iconic phrases that drove her best friend to death.
The newly received letter proved to be the cherry on top of the cake in that comparison game, as Bree's life was turning more and more uncannily like Mary Alice's, and thus she was now filled with a horrifying fear that it might one day end the same way as well. In a flashback, Mary Alice is shown receiving the letter, and then contemplating telling the girls about her deepest, darkest secret. However, she decides against it, so as to not burden them.
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