The central character in Footsteps is in physical jeopardy through much of the novel; both he and the reader feel real terror. But it is a terror of threatened or implied violence, without graphic depictions of assaults or cruelty. The suggested violence is clearly necessary to the plot and takes place "off stage."
The several women who appear in the novel play less important roles than the men, but women are not denigrated.
And at the end of Footsteps, William's mother.....
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