What are the motifs in The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood?

Female possibility is a recurring idea inthe novel. But while "the real world of women is far too harsh" for the hapless men in this novel, it is not the last word on female possibility — Atwood has not abandoned her feminism in the process of complicating it. In the friendships among her protagonists she suggests a potent alternative to female predatoriness and male unreliability, recalling her fondness for Fay Weldon's assertion that "Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men."