Who is Reba Spelding in the play, Visit to a Small Planet?

Reba is Roger's wife and Ellen's mother. Her biggest concern in the play is that fact that Kreton's spacecraft has landed in her rose garden. In Reba, Vidal is making fun of the 1950s ideal of the perfect housewife, a domestic-minded woman obsessed with presenting the perfect image embodied by everything from her delicious apple pie to her beautiful, well-behaved children.