Diary of a Mad Housewife

Plots: A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer. Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented Tina in much the same manner Jonathan has, and has been unfaithful to boot, she goes back to her husband and begins group therapy. 1970s New Yor, young patents, Tina (Betina) and Jonathan are ‘going through the motions’of life and contentment, but Tina’s at her breaking point; Raised postwar, she’s ‘achieved’ what she was told she should be/want, but she’s lost, and on the verge of a breakdown She struggles with her role as mother/housekeeper/wife, and as Jonathan becomes more demanding and distant, she’s constantly reminded of her ‘duties’ as wife and mother. Tina starts an affair with writer,George Prager, whose ego is as massive as Tina’s anxiety. She realises she’s found the exact same type of man in George as her husband. In the turbulent sexual revolution of three period, Tina’s a soldier looking how to be herself.