Stepford Wife?
Was Novak's transformation at the end supposed to be a positive one? When she shows up in that lemon yellow dress she has this Stepford wife-like quality to her when she greets Jimmy Stewart. Is this supposed to be a better version of her character?
I much preferred her in the black cigarette pants and black dress she wore earlier in the film. That's who Stewart fell in love with, under a spell or not. At the end she's just boring.