n playing on them. A smiling traffic policeman directs downtown traffic in an orderly fashion. A series of dissolves lead from outside the Newton family home into the upstairs bedroom of "Young" Charlie (Teresa Wright), paralleling her introduction with the one of her Uncle in the rooming house - to stress their close affinity and link to each other.
             Charlie is lying fully dressed in a very similar position on her bed as her Uncle Charlie in the first scene, meditating or deep in thought - her arms cradling her head on a pillow. In his article Ideology, Genre, Auteur (Hitchococh's Films Revisited, 1988, Columbia University Press, pgs. 288-302) Robin Wood argues that this image is part of the incest theme that runs through the film. The ringing of the downstairs telephone introduces Charlie's younger, bookwormish, precocious, and bespectacled sister Ann (Edna May Wonacott) with her nose buried in Ivanhoe. She answers the phone call from Mrs. Henderson at the Postal Union office, but doesn't write down the message for lack of a pencil,
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