In Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves", women and men are represented as different beings. Men are represented as the ferocious wolves, and women are represented as beautiful vessels. The roles of women and men are much defined in this story. Carter demonstrates the dominant theme of late 20th centaury writing by showing the readers that the women are weak and the men are powerful. By Carter trying to make the story into a female dominated story, where the girl survives, she is reinforcing the stereotype of men and women. In "The Company of Wolves," Angela Carter reinforces the traditional stereotypical roles between men and women by using the theme of innocence verses experienced. The woman in this story is considered the innocent being, she is innocent sexually, and innocent emotionally. While the man takes on the role of the experienced, being sexually mature, and a devious predator.
             Carter reinforces the traditional gender roles, by making the woman the sexually innocent character. The young girl is described as "She is an unbroken egg, she is a sealed vessel; she has inside of her a magic space, the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane, she is a closed system, she does not know how to shiver" (Carter, 222). This girl is unknown to the touch of a man; she is seen as the virgin. The description of the girl is very pleasant; she is not thought of as a sinful character. Carter describes her as:
             Her breasts, have just begun to swell; her hair is like
             lint, so fair it hardly makes a shadow on her pale
             forehead; her cheeks are an emblematic scarlet and
             white and she has just started her woman's bleeding,
             the clock inside her that will strike, henceforward,
             This quote shows she is pure to a man. The wolf is the opposite. He roams as he pleases, and preys on innocent girls. Women are brought up to be pure, and are told to wait until marriage before...