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Originally Posted by Ea
One thing that irritated me a bit, was the way women were described in comparison to men. There's a bit too many pretty secretaries with whom the men have affairs because their wives are haggard harridans. And what's up with all those naked women at the ball?  It's probably just a reflection of gender and gender roles of a time past, but it kept annoying me like a pebble in my shoe.
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I understand your feelings about women in the text. I was initially impressed that Bulgakov included two fleshed out female characters in the text, Margarita and Natasha, who had some agency in their lives. Then I realized how depressing it was there were only two female characters who were characters and not puppets in the plot machinations.