On various occasions, the girl is depicted as having an almost toy-like quality, where she can only be controlled and manipulated by her husband. On page 10, the text reads, “he had invited me to join this gallery of beautiful women” (Carter 10). This is just one instance in the story where the female character is shown as an object simply to be displayed and displayed to the rest of the world. When the couple is about to have sex, the wife's description in terms of the husband's actions corresponds to the qualities of other objects. For example, he is described "as if he were tearing the leaves off 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 that the male figure of the husband has on the objectified woman. However, in both stories, the classic one by Perrault and the modern one by Carter, this idea of ​​objectification reaches its culminating point, in the sense that the murder of wives by their husbands is a way to literally gather them and keep them in a room for theirs