Fay Weldon, born Franklin Birkinshaw, began in a state of ambivalence. She “took out library books as Franklin and read them as 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, to obtain a true, not idealized, vision of it, and to give it to you in the form of fiction” (Fay Weldon). This is how Fay Weldon characterizes her writing. Although the role and position of women in society has changed significantly over the past fifty years, a gender divide 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 she's not necessarily always on the women's side. "[...]Weldon does not overuse his female characters to construct a simplistic thesis about evil men and victimized women. In its point of view and tone, its vision of women's relationships with men is more satisfyingly complex” (Krouse). In Weldon's novels, women are not infallible, they make mistakes and it is often their fault if things end badly. Often, a man is the open-minded and down-to-earth part of the couple. It also constitutes 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 blend of tolerance, exaggeration and realism. "Weldon's interest in women's experiences, her perceptions of their sexuality and friendship, her intelligent insight that women's lives are necessarily different from men's, make her a most valuable contemporary novelist for ...... middle of paper.... ..f view of her novels Weldon is much more complex and experienced, and feminism is only part of her personality, as well as her novels. She is strongly feminist in her criticism of men and their lust for power, but at the same time she is very realistic She is feminist, but not radical, and reading her novels and examining her point of view is enriching and not limiting. often exaggerates and is unforgiving, but if she weren't, the message in her books wouldn't be as appealing “Readers crave explanations about their lives: fiction writers provide them, expanding the. experience, giving meaning and meaning where there was none before. I see myself as someone who drops tiny crumbs of food, in the form of comments and conversations, into the huge black maw of the world's discontent. […] See me as Sisyphus, but having fun” (Fay Weldon).