(Funny, though, she bears an odd resemblance to the long-suffering stalwart she replaces).
She is more than the sum of her domestic, artistic and professional roles, even though she bears the traces, in her extraordinary face, of the various roles she has performed.
Rain, whose blog is called Rainy Day Thought, is the pseudonym of an outspoken 60-ish woman who lives on a farm in America's Pacific Northwest, though she bears no resemblance to the stereotypical farmer's wife.
"That's a major screw-up!" the sputtering critic all but yelled at the poor woman, as though she bore responsibiiltiy for its exclusion from the script.
The gods again got in the way, though, and she bore Bellerophontes to Poseidon, who gave his son the winged horse Pegasus with which Bellerophontes slew the Chimera.
Even though she represents Massachusetts, she bears traces of her upbringing in the great American expanses.
Within weeks she loses everything — her beloved job, her hard-won independence, her formidable mentor — and becomes an ill-equipped housewife, goaded by her mother-in-law and ignored by her husband (though she does bear him child after child, the last of whom is Loulou).
The top editor, Miranda Priestly, is a python-sheathed harpy who requires her staff to charter private jets for her at midnight in the rain, to set out her lunch on china platters (though she cannot bear to see them eating in front of her) and to baby-sit for the children of her friends.
Jenna has two sidekicks — Dawn (Kimiko Glenn), a lonely single who hooks up with the eccentric Ogie (Christopher Fitzgerald, who is consistently and credibly hilarious), and Becky (Keala Settle), who gets it on with the gruff but lovable diner manager Cal (Eric Anderson), even though she cannot bear to leave her husband, ill and unseen.
But even though she beat the rap, she bears the scars, and when the sounds of a murder in progress come through at the emergency call center where she works, Jessie finds a way to make restitution.
The pandas eventually grew friendlier, and Ling-Ling became pregnant five times, though none of the cubs she bore survived for more than a few days.
