Did anyone think, "this is just a fluff character"?

有没有人想过这是个不重要的角色
I would suggest to you that the difference in your response

我想告诉大家的是你们的观点不同于
and the critics' is the difference that feminism in the '70s made.

评论家的是70年代女权主义造成的
In the 1960s, to have a protagonist go into the world

60年代让一个主人公步入社会
and discover this incredibly complex set of patterns,

并且领悟到社会难以置信的复杂
and to have that protagonist be a housewife,

而且让主人公扮演一个家庭主妇的角色
was very much playing against type.

是与常规背道而驰的
So, Pynchon took a certain kind of risk

品钦着实是冒险
by choosing to make his protagonist a housewife.

选择将主人公塑造为一个家庭主妇
So, the question is, why did he do that?

问题是他为什么这么做
I want to suggest to you that he did that because a woman

我想告诉大家他之所以这么做是因为
is expected to occupy certain conventional roles at this moment,

在那时女人是应该扮演特定的传统角色的