The heroine of “Man and Superman,” Ann Whitefield, is one of Show’s strong-minded women. Like Candida Morell, Barbara Undershaft, and Vivie Warren, she knows the world and what she wants out of life. But Ann isn’t as immediately likable as Candida, Barbara, and Vivie; she lacks their forthrightness and their gift for argument. Where Barbara and Candida can hold their own with fathers, suitors, and husbands, Ann comments on speech instead of engaging in it, and she manages people—particularly men—instead of trying to reason with them. She’s forever getting caught out in some manipulative lie—usually by Jack Tanner, the self-styled Continue reading

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