Wolf-Alice

‘‘she lives without a future…a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair’’

very animalistic

‘‘wheedle a shift over her head to cover up her bold nakedness’’

link to tiger’s bride who is empowered by nudity

‘‘nothing can hurt him since he ceased to cast an image in the mirror’’

loss of identity/self/belonging? unknown past - you don’t need to be well acquainted with someone to help them i guess

‘‘his eyes see only appetite’’

the duke

‘‘his transformation is their parody’’

the duke is like the parody of a wolf

‘‘we secluded her in her animal privacy out of fear of her imperfection because it showed us what we might have been’’

‘‘she is not a wolf herself’’

‘‘it was not fastidiousness but shame that made her do so’’

‘Eve and grunting Adam squat on a daisy bank picking the lice from one another’s pelts then she might prove to be the wise child’

‘‘picking lice from one another’s pelts’’

reminder of primitive yet celebrated biblical creatures

‘‘howls like a wolf with his foot in a trap or a woman in labour and bleeds’’

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‘‘trickle between her thigh’’

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‘‘bite his mother’s nipple off and weep’’

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‘‘holy cross as a scratching post’’

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‘‘locked… an aborted transformation’’

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‘‘embarrassment of a child’’

‘‘white dress made her shine’’

‘‘to lick without hesitation, without disgust’’

‘‘white as leprosy’’

‘‘thirstily lap up holy water’’

‘‘the moon and mirrors have this much in common: you cannot see behind them’’

‘‘irreparable gulf of absence’’

‘‘perennial stranger’’

‘‘long nose’’, ‘‘useful tool’’

Carter establishes traditional functions of body parts, rejecting toxic beauty standards that stretch women to unrealistic expectations, reminding women that unique physical traits have specific purposes

‘‘she lent them the assistance of her own educated voice’’

she howls maybe? as the people in the church complain?

her relation with the mirror was now far more intimate since she knew she saw herself within it

identity, knowing who you are

‘the prey caught in its own fishing net’

‘as vivid as real life itself, as if brought into being by her soft moist gentle tongue’

‘his bedroom is painted terracotta, rusted with a wash of pain’

agony of the outsider

‘cast in the role of the corpse-eater’

society others people and forces them into destructive roles

‘poked her with sticks to rouse her’

human capacity for cruelty