fysbw on Instagram: "Behind every “great man” is an erased woman In The Wife, Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) finally speaks after decades of quiet concession. She has supported – or, as it turns out, made – her husband’s career from the shadows, even as HE receives the Nobel Prize for Literature for work she (yes, SHE) wrote. In this scene, the pain comes not only from being overlooked but from the suffocating erasure of one’s identity in service of someone else’s narrative. Joan’s anger here has