"On one level the story is a study of sexual politics, of the powerlessness of women and of the psychology which results from the powerlessness" (Fetterley, 170). ... "With the morning twilight Aylmer opened his eyes upon his wife's face and recognized the symbol of imperfection; and when they sat together at the evening hearth his eyes wandered stealthily to her cheek, an beheld, flickering with the blaze of the wood fire, the spectral hand that wrote mortality where he would fain have worshipped" (Hawthorne, 46). ...

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