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Dale Coba
Ike Mazzard is a famous magazine illustrator who lives in Stepford. Like the other men in town, he belongs to the Men’s Association. Ever since she was a young girl, Joanna has seen Ike’s drawings and felt inferior to them, since he always draws unrealistically beautiful women. When she first meets him, he sketches her without her permission, and though she wants him to stop, he ignores her. However, she ends up feeling flattered by the final product, which she frames. She later learns that Ike Mazzard has sketched every woman in Stepford. All of the drawings are exaggerated to make the women more stereotypically attractive than they are, and the implication is that these drawings are used to design the robotic bodies that will eventually be used to replace the women themselves.
Ike Mazzard Quotes in The Stepford Wives
The The Stepford Wives quotes below are all either spoken by Ike Mazzard or refer to Ike Mazzard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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“Hey,” she said, shifting uncomfortably and smiling, “I’m no Ike Mazzard girl.”
“Every girl’s an Ike Mazzard girl,” Mazzard said, and smiled at her and smiled at his pecking.
She looked to Walter; he smiled embarrassedly and shrugged.
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Chapter 2
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She was wrong, she knew it. She was wrong and frozen and wet and tired and hungry, and pulled eighteen ways by conflicting demands. Including to pee.
If they were killers, they’d have killed her then. The branch wouldn’t’ have stopped them, three men facing one woman.
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Bobbie would bleed. It was coincidence that Dale Coba had worked on robots at Disneyland, that Claude Axhelm thought he was Henry Higgins, that Ike Mazzard drew his flattering sketches. Coincidence, that she had spun into—into madness. Yes, madness.
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Ike Mazzard Quotes in The Stepford Wives
The The Stepford Wives quotes below are all either spoken by Ike Mazzard or refer to Ike Mazzard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
“Hey,” she said, shifting uncomfortably and smiling, “I’m no Ike Mazzard girl.”
“Every girl’s an Ike Mazzard girl,” Mazzard said, and smiled at her and smiled at his pecking.
She looked to Walter; he smiled embarrassedly and shrugged.
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Chapter 2
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She was wrong, she knew it. She was wrong and frozen and wet and tired and hungry, and pulled eighteen ways by conflicting demands. Including to pee.
If they were killers, they’d have killed her then. The branch wouldn’t’ have stopped them, three men facing one woman.
[…]
Bobbie would bleed. It was coincidence that Dale Coba had worked on robots at Disneyland, that Claude Axhelm thought he was Henry Higgins, that Ike Mazzard drew his flattering sketches. Coincidence, that she had spun into—into madness. Yes, madness.
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