Post-War Effects: How Gender Roles were Flipped in “Kiss Me Again, Stranger”

My exhibition titled “Post-War Effects: How Gender Roles were Flipped in “Kiss Me Again, Stranger” analyzes how gender roles were affected in Du Maurier’s post-war society. In the story, a boy, on his night off meets a girl who he is enamored by and who he then gets tangled up with. Unbeknownst to him, she is a murderer of only Air Force men because of something that occurred in her past: she wants revenge. My exhibit makes the case that society is never the same after war. During the war, things had to change and due to our human nature after the war, we attempt to put things back the way they were. However, people do not want to go back to the way they were, women did not want to go back to only working in the house and men working jobs outside the house. This is what led to the femme fatale and more importantly the challenging of the narrative of war and its effects.