"The Bloody Chamber"

This story was engaging and fascinating, but it had so much going on at once. One line that strikes me in particular is, when the narrator says, "I only did what he new I would" (37), Jean-Yves answers, "Like Eve" (38). This brings to mind a theme of overcoming fate, which is especially interesting as, even when her husband is dead, the narrator feels shame and retains her husband's red mark on her forehead. I can't quite tell if she's won or lost, exactly (if you can call it winning or losing). I find the biblical reference curious, though, because it likens the marquis to god. I'm not entirely sure whether this was done to emphasize the husband's power and potential to frighten, to say something about religion, or perhaps both. Other elements of the story don't quite fit into a perversion of the Adam and Eve story, but thinking of the whole story in that light is interesting nonetheless.