ring our institutions as
             far into harmony with the feelings of women as they now are with the
             feelings of men, there will be no Woman Question. No conflict, no question
             In Candida, the same line, given to Lexy, becomes a joke on male self-
             importance: "Ah, if you women only had the same clue to Man's strength that
             you have to his weakness, Miss Prossy, there would be no Woman Question"
             (Shaw, Candida 13). More generally, Shaw structures Candida to explore the
             obverse of the psychoemotional situation in A Doll House, presenting a
             woman who not only retains her persona but also lends nobility and dignity
             to it by enacting a role that enables a man to avoid the spoiling of his
             principles, his persona. The price for such an approach to married life is
             a certain emotional distance on Candida's part and emotional blindness on
             Morell's. But Candida is domestic comedy, not domestic drama, and this
             answer to the Woman Question moves toward Morell's insight that Candida's
             love for him has meant that she has played one socially sanctioned role so
             as to enable him to play another role that is not only socially sanctioned
             An important clue to understanding how Candida approaches her marriage
             is in her relationship with her father, Burgess. Burgess is very much a
             creature of the flower of England's Industrial Revolution, mercantilist,
             entrepreneurial, not remotely genteel but just clever enough to have risen
             ...