The Country Wife is a very funny comedy about men, women and marriage. There is a continual joking of sexual suggestion and double meaning. There are pessimistic remarks on honor, class, women, and love. Horner – the main character of the play who wants to find a way to get women - represents the usual negative attitude of men in this play towards women, by comparing women to inanimate objects. Horner who is a ruthless rascal and a self-proclaimed wit, and he wants to get all the ladies without having other men suspect him of stealing these men's wives. So Horner starts a rumor that he has caught a disease while he was in France. So, Horner craftily sets up a plan where no one but the doctor will know that he is still a "man". Even his closest friends do not know the truth. He is crafty enough to know that bragging to his friends will only cause his plan to not succeed. It seems that Horner may be insecure about his relationships with women, and has wittingly devised this scheme to be sure of their feelings for him. Horner in a way feels that men lose their freedom by being attached to women. Horner makes many derogatory remarks about women; he says they are like soldiers. Horner does a lot of complaining about women and how they use him, when actually he is using them and their husbands. Margery Pinchwife who is the naive country wife. She just recently married Mr. Pinchwife, and he is extremely jealous of his wife. He married her (a country wife) so that he could avoid all the infidelity, extravagance, and impertinence associated with the stereotypical city wife. He tries his best to keep Margery away from the city life and he makes her stay home. He tells her that the behavior of the people who go watch movies is not acceptable and that they stare at women; Margery is interested in this. To stop her from being curious, he takes her to town wearing a mask, and sh
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