The Day of the Triffids - By John Wyndham, Blog 2

Although Bill is the main character of this book, he is not the only one who undergoes a major change. The woman that he saves from the blind man does too. Her name is Josella Playton. She is also one of the fortunate ones who is sighted. She didn't see the meteor shower because she was sick and stayed in bed the whole day before with all the curtains drawn. It turns out that she slept through the whole thing, and good thing too, because it brings some dynamic back to the story.

In Josella's life before devastation hit Earth, she wrote a book that was very frivolous. It was called, "Sex is my Adventure". She had done it just because she needed money, but it became very famous. She sees the devastation as a way to get away from the view everyone has of her. It is a way for her to start over again. She is very happy she meets Bill, because in a world full of blind, it is nice to have someone who is like you, and it would be very lonely otherwise. It is a good thing they find each other, because Josella looks for her dad after being rescued, and it turns out the Triffids have killed everyone in her house including her father. Josella and Bill both have no family, and are left with only each other. They decide to stick together, and while driving around, find the university group.

The night after joining, they get captured and get split up after a fake fire. They are put in charge of groups of blind people, but don't have to take care of them for long, because everyone starts dying from some sort of illness. Josella finds her way to her aunt's cottage, while Bill goes in the other direction to try to find her. At the cottage, she finds her aunt and uncle, and their friend, blind and surrounded by Triffids. She manages to get in the house, equipped with a flame thrower that kills the Triffids. Bill eventually finds his way there.

By this time, Bill and Josella are basically in love, and so about a year later they have a son. Josella now becomes a housewife, something everyone from her past life would never have thought possible. They are very happy together, but must do everything on their own. Josella's role as a farmers wife includes making the food, and repairing clothes, and taking care of the kids. All of these are things she probably would never have seen for herself, or at least nowhere in the near future. She changes the way she lived a lot in order to survive, but she becomes happier, and she decides that she doesn't regret the way things turned out, and in fact is pretty happy with the way they did.