A particularly insightful comparison to the real world emerges in the change of news personnel, where older men are replaced with old women and young attractive men are brought in as eye candy co-hosts.
Each character’s arc exemplifies a different side of the change in the world - political, religious, criminal and media. Men are suddenly second class citizens, as Tunde the male journalist soon finds: Roxy, the daughter of a gangster realises that she can now lead the organisation Margot, the mayor of a city in New England decides that with the new power she can further her political ambitions Allie an abused young teenage girl decides to pioneer a new religion. The book is separated into several distinct viewpoints, all of which show different aspects of the power change occurring.
When the women in Alderman’s novel acquire the power to electrocute people at will, a reversal is effected as the world swiftly swings from a patriarchy to one of female domination. The Power is a globe-trotting thriller which manages to capture not only gender power relations but to explore the idea of why exploitation occurs, and how ultimately simple the reasoning behind it is.
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