What Did JoAnna See In Walter?

So true! Like in the beginning he seems nice and progressive so maybe those were aspects she was looking for? Also maybe casting is wrong.. Never read the book so this is all speculation but maybe she wasn't suppose to be so pretty.
But a women who looks like her doesn't just need to fall for someone 'nice', maybe when they met he had more hair?!

Probably when they first got married, Walter was a fun dude, then like a lot of men, he got wrapped up in his job, started balding and just got really boring. Joanna was ripe for a steamy affair, till her husband had her beheaded.

This is something I've been saying about Hollywood casting for years--Now days most roles are given to people who are good looking. Everyone has to be a Brad Pitt or an Angelina Jolie to get the good parts in films, but it wasn't so most of the time back in the old days. I mean, how many leading roles would Wally Cox get today?

Many of the male roles were filled by men who were older. Look back at shows like Bewitched and you see that most of the actors who played Darren's office contemporaries were white-haired men.

Its true Walter isn't the most handsome man around. But there are hints about who he was once before he became a Men's Association pod person.

He is stable, worked hard for a good job, initially encouraged Joanna to be a photographer, he seemed to have a great sense of humor. It isn't always about looks. Plus we have to take into account that Joanna probably started dating Walter right after her affair with the Chemist flamed out. Walter was probably very understanding and supportive of her in her heartbreak.

What happened was somewhere along the line, Walter lost interest in Joanna not the other way around. In the film Joanna even mentions something to the effect that he doesn't talk to her and/or ignores her opinions.

I think coming in the direction of Walter being a good guy but eventually turning into a Men's Association drone is more horrible than thinking he was always a turd.

i always thought the same. also was she reaLLy the kind of person to live and be happy in the goddam burbs?

oh well.. love is blind i guess

Money.

There are plenty of guys who look like they’re punching above their weight, but find out what they do and it all becomes clear. Women want nice things and to appear to be of high social value, and of course the resources they’ll need to feather the nest and raise children.

Joanna wants it both ways - to have all that and to be a successful freewheeling photographer, and she doesn’t want to put out for her hard-working husband who is bankrolling her lifestyle. In fact, she spends most of their time together berating him.

While Walter’s ultimate actions are beyond unforgivable, you can see where the pressure started forming. Ironically, it was Joanna’s embrace of feminism that led to her being murdered by her own sexbot.

I think their relationship was meant to stand for every couple that finds themselves losing not just their relationships, but their very identities, when they have kids and move to the suburbs.

Both are at the stage of realizing that the things that they prided themselves on, the things that formed their positive self-images, no longer matter, and that they're put themselves in a position where they have to become people they never wanted to be. She's still struggling to hold on to the cool, arty, thinking part of herself, but already he's given up. He's already become someone else, someone who's willing to forget he was once someone who believed in love, and just live for personal gratification.

Looks like a case of the Billy Joel Syndrome. Gorgeous woman marries man who is obviously not in her league look wise.