When they are the central characters of his stories, however, they are pretty consistently just as capable, resourceful, smart, and in some cases broken as his male heroes. Being wiser, more mature, and (because of those qualities, specifically, rather than physical beauty or social position) someone who the main character must earn the respect (and love) of by making a psychological or maturity breakthrough is by no means the worst trope associated with female characters, but it’s still something of a cliché. They’re usually something of a cipher to the male main character, but in that he finds them to be more socially adept than him and in that way impressive and mysterious. I’ll be the first to point out that when Neal Stephenson, a writer whose every new book I will read without hesitation, has female characters in secondary roles, they tend to all be cut from the same cloth.
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