Fay Weldon, born Franklin Birkinshaw, began in a state of ambivalence. She “took out library books like Franklin and read them like Fay” (Weldon). “What I have to do is be true to what I see around me, whether I like it or not. My role is to look at the world, obtain a true vision of it, not an idealized one, and deliver it to you in an imaginary form” (Fay Weldon). This is how Fay Weldon characterizes her writing. Although the role and position of women in society have changed significantly over the last fifty years, a division between the sexes still exists. It is Weldon's fresh and sophisticated writing style, along with her feminist views, that make her novels extraordinary. Weldon takes an objective approach to relationships, but isn't necessarily always on the women's side. “[...] Weldon does not use her female characters heavily to develop a simplistic thesis about bad men and victimized women. Through point of view and tone, her vision of women's relationships with men is more complex and satisfying” (Krouse). In Weldon's novels women are not infallible, they make mistakes and it is often their fault if things end badly. Often the man is the open-minded and down-to-earth part of the couple. It also serves as a responsible and reliable element. Weldon aims to show women that with great power comes even greater responsibility. Weldon writes with a wicked sense of humor and outrageous plots. His point of view and narrative style are a new mix of tolerance, exaggeration and realism. “Weldon's interest in women's experience, her perceptions of their sexuality and friendship, her intelligent view that women's lives are necessarily different from men's, make her a contemporary writer of great value to ... middle of paper.... ...f view of his novels. Weldon is much more complex and experienced, and feminism is only part of her personality, as well as her novels. It is strongly feminist in its criticism of men and their lust for power, but at the same time it is very realistic. She is a feminist, but not a radical, and reading her novels and examining her views enriches, not limits. He often exaggerates and is unforgiving, but if he weren't, the message in his books wouldn't be so appealing. “Readers crave explanations about their lives: fiction writers provide them, broadening the experience, giving meaning and meaning where there was none before. I see myself as someone who drops tiny crumbs of nourishment, in the form of comments and conversations, into the enormous black maw of global discontent. […] See me as Sisyphus, but having fun” (Fay Weldon).