I don't really consider myself as being one of the "younger" generation, though I am young, but frankly, I never noticed or paid attention. When it was mentioned what someone's job is/was, I stopped paying attention to the fate of said job, whether they were still going, or what. Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if Fleur knocked it back to part time, at least while planning the wedding, and when they were at Shell Cottage I don't remember them commenting too terribly much on when she was hanging around the house - but then, they didn't say much about Bill, either, and I remember wondering fleetingly during the scene in Gringotts if either of them had anything to do with it after it was taken over. The book was never clear.
The thing is, Rowling never seems particularly interested in details that don't directly affect the plot line. Some characters are in relationships just because they are, and those who don't have relationships that work into the plot just don't seem to have them at all. Same with jobs. Maybe mentioned once to establish who they are/why they're there, and then unless it has a bearing on whats going on (like so-and-so working at the Ministry), it's irrelevant. Which is probably as it should be, because the books are awfully long as it is without delving deeply into nonessential details.
And incidently, despite being a single, career-driven woman myself, I resent the implication that being a homemaker/mother is anti-feminist, or that a woman has to choose between the two. I don't at all think it makes a woman weak or anything less than her husband just because she isn't working outside the home. She's still -working-, and pretty hard, too.
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Date: 2007-07-25 02:29 pm (UTC)The thing is, Rowling never seems particularly interested in details that don't directly affect the plot line. Some characters are in relationships just because they are, and those who don't have relationships that work into the plot just don't seem to have them at all. Same with jobs. Maybe mentioned once to establish who they are/why they're there, and then unless it has a bearing on whats going on (like so-and-so working at the Ministry), it's irrelevant. Which is probably as it should be, because the books are awfully long as it is without delving deeply into nonessential details.
And incidently, despite being a single, career-driven woman myself, I resent the implication that being a homemaker/mother is anti-feminist, or that a woman has to choose between the two. I don't at all think it makes a woman weak or anything less than her husband just because she isn't working outside the home. She's still -working-, and pretty hard, too.