females bound in the confines of marriage, and as accumulated property are some of the issues that Carter addresses in The Bloody Chamber within the framework of the fairytale genre.
             If the development of female sexuality is based upon the rejection of the mother (Freud) then Carter has in fact stunted the sexual maturation, of the wife in The Bloody Chamber. At the beginning of the tale, the reader is led to believe that the wife is starting to detach from the mother. The bride says, "In the midst of my bridal triumph, I felt a pang of loss as if, when he put the gold band on my finger, I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife" (7). Instances after that the reader will catch glimpses of the bride actually aware of her sexuality, and that of her husbands'. It is even possible that she reaches a point wherein her sexuality is fully matured. Some time after the newly wed couple sleeps together she says, "there had awoken a certain queasy cr
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