On several occasions, the girl is depicted as having an almost toy-like quality, in which she cannot be controlled and manipulated than by her husband. On page 10, the text notes, “he had invited me to join this gallery of beautiful women” (Carter 10). This is just one example in the story where the female character is presented as an object simply meant to be shown and exposed to the rest of the world. When the couple is about to have sex, the wife's description, in terms of her husband's actions, matches the qualities of other objects. For example, he is described “as if he were removing the leaves from an artichoke” and that “he closed my legs like a book” (Carter 15). Both of these examples involve inanimate objects, which can be used and controlled. This mimics the assertive and manipulative quality of the male figure of the husband in relation to the objectified wife. However, in both stories, Perrault's classic and Carter's modern, this idea of ​​objectification reaches its climax in the sense that the husbands' murders of their wives are a way of literally bringing them together and keeping them in a room for them