Sophe is reduced from a beautiful vibrant girl to someone barely able to survive. The woman's place in the Fringes is also touched on in Sophie’s role as the companion to Spider-man, as well as a fighter and a survivor. Despite Sophie’s strong skills in survival, what she really wants is to be able to bear children—if not for Spider-man, then for her first love, David. Wyndham thus reduces Sophie to a sad, desperate girl who only wants to conform to the gender role of the place where she came from: being a wife and a mother. Sophie's sad destiny is directly related to the intolerance and cruelty of Waknuk.