The Incredible Shrinking Woman story
Pat Kramer of Tasty Meadows is an ordinary suburban housewife and mother of two children. Her husband Vance is an advertising executive. After exposure to an experimental perfume and other chemicals from her husband's company, she begins to shrink, gradually at first, then rapidly. It is a take-off on the 1957 science-fiction classic film The Incredible Shrinking Man, and credited as based on Richard Matheson's 1956 novel, The Shrinking Man.
11 total · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a loved one being in peril | major | Vance with his wife Pat shrinking in size. |
| coping with being famous | major | An ever shrinking Pat became became a media darling her house a destination for curiosity seekers. |
| husband and wife | major | Vance and Pat Kramer. |
| mass consumerism | major | The film was a critique of mass consumerism from start to finish: Vance was marketing a perfume, Pat sang a TV soap commercial jingle to get children to wash up, and there were other commercial jingles were played from time to time, and some company executives tried to use a greatly shrunken Pat to advertise their products. |
| parent and child | major | Pat and Vance parented a handful of little brats. |
| the lust for power | major | Dr. Eugene Nortz was planning to use a serum derived from Pat's blood to shrink everyone in the world except for himself and his associates. His motive: to be master of the world. |
| what if I shrank in size | major | Pat shrank to minute proportions after being exposed to an experimental perfume. |
| compassion | minor | The caged gorilla Sidney felt sorry for Pat in her captivity. It tried help her escape. |
| coping with the death of someone | minor | Tears were shed at Pat's funeral. |
| human vs. captivity | minor | Pat was abducted by two mad scientists. |