Ah ah ah!

"Ah, ah!" With those charming words a few others, probably less than 10 total, Nathanael is seduced and completely removed from his family, friends, and lover - who is also kind-of family. A lot of the men in these stories are really pathetic and fickle. The husband and brother in The Yellow Wallpaper almost dehumanize the protagonist after they diagnose her with female hysteria, which is all-over , shoddy and sexist from a modern perspective. The husband is only involved in the story when he dismisses the pleas of his wife, tells her how she is doing/feeling, or when he is mentioned for his distant and unfeeling supposedly scientific or professional approach towards his wife's 'condition'. While this man is completely unfeeling we have others like Nathanael who are too passionate. He falls in love with a glorified puppet swears off his lover and then doesn't tell her about any of it (to be fair it could be out of shame but since he goes crazy for the doll its fair to guess he is not ashamed). There's also Arthur Montague who is, for whatever reason, married to a woman who is infuriatingly disrespectful.  Arthur is nice enough, or so weak and reliant, that he defends his wife's demeanor though she has no interest in being civil with him, respecting his plans for documenting Hill House, or being at all tolerable. I think it'd be interesting to look at general patterns of how, over time, the sexes have been depicted in literature that deals with the supernatural. I wonder how much there is to be said for general patterns or individual characters. In our stories we don't have quintessential characters like a modern horror movies naive princess, cocky jock, or objectified-woman but I'm sure there's some roles that repeat themselves in significant frequencies.