But Tony wants not just awife but aperfectwife, and when he innocently asks her to curb her expensive obsession, she tries to please him, to a horrible end.
"Obama is the perfect family man, with a beautiful wife and children straight out of the Saturday Evening Post", the home of Norman Rockwell's idealised images of Middle America.
Chichikov is a fantasist who imagines himself one day running a plush and productive estate, with a pretty wife and fine children, himself the very model of the perfect Russian citizen.