Edward Scissorhands

Women In the movie Edward Scissorhands are certainly portrayed as having gender roles. They are viewed as stay at home moms and housewives. They are all supposed to be picture perfect. They gossip, judge each other, and all compete to be the best. None of the housewives take risks. Peg is different than the normal housewives because she does take a risk. Bringing Edward home definitely brings attention onto Peg. They all see her as crazy and different. She is not the average "cookie cuter" housewife because she does something very different as in taking Edward home. The gender roles of the women in this movie are not the same as today's women. Most women in today's society have jobs and are not the average stay home mother anymore. I do believe that women were this way at one point. I think Burton portrayed women in this way to make the movie more dramatic. Edward may cause the drama, but the women blow it out of proportion and really cause the drama to effect the family. Edward is so different because the town is all the same. If he were in a town of unique people the movie would not be the same.