The Bloody Chamber. Loneliness and Man Power!

What surprised me the most while reading these few pages is the journey of her turning from a teenage girl into a woman, she still sees herself a giggling schoolgirl, but the emptiness of her husband not being with her makes her realize that she is isolated from human contact, on page 21 she say's that she would be happy to talk to the maid or even the piano tuner as she felt lonely with nobody to comfort her. An interesting point is when she hears the voice of her mother she begins to cry as a child would being homesick, the scary truth is that she knows as a wife that she has to fulfill her duties and hearing the sound of her mothers voice breaks her up inside. Back on page 20 the narrator tells us that she is to visit the piano player (who is blind), and decides to dress in her own chosen clothes rather than any of her new clothes given to her after her marriage. "I pulled on my old serge skirt and flannel blouse, costume of a student, in which I felt far more at ease with myself than in any of my new fine clothes". She clearly feels at comfort when wearing clothes that remind of her independence of being a teenage girl, rather than wearing clothes that have been given to her, to make her feel as though she isn't herself (male- control). On the other hand she could be acting like a child to put on a facade in front of her husband, even though she has slept with him and become a woman, she could well be acting naive, innocent and childlike to attract him. Her childlike mind comes into practice as she is asked what she wants to eat, she has the freedom to choose anything she likes "but surprise me for desert with every single ice-cream in the box", whichever way we interpret the text there is always something signifying the male dominance, and in this case it is the reversal of gender roles and how the male is causing the female character to change for him whether its clothing or jewelery or even the mindset of a female, MEN ARE IN POWER!