Interestingly, the narrator highlights the fragments of otherness in [her] body and yet chooses to dismiss them through his hunger to find beauty. When he first meets her eyes, he notes that they hold a strange look of greed, amounting to craving within them. According to Carolyn Burdett eyes are one of the most prominent mystery tropes in Gothic fiction& where terror and superstition brew. This is one of the first instances where the young woman starts to unveil her true non-normative bodily features, Macdonalds use of the noun craving alludes to the young womans powerful desire for flesh and blood over the quivering disgust she has toward the fish. This display of otherness decodes her atavistic double self that has the potential to destroy,, especially through the suggested hunger, which he ignores and glosses over by stating she was almost beautiful. This ignorance presents a danger to him as it is the&(hyper)sexuality and attractiveness of the female werewolf& [and her] exaggerated female corporeality that he chooses to fo
cus on rather than the danger he faces. Later, her eyes are described as being for the most part veiled from his gaze, here we can perhaps argue that she embodies the strong and cunning qualities of a female werewolf. Throughout Victorian Gothic fiction, a veil is used to hide a females true form from whoever they are trying to trick or seduce. Whilst I argued prior that she does not characterize herself as the Femme fatale, I do believe here that she demands the male gaze to be cast upon her, she is hoping, through his curiosity surrounding her that he will perhaps acknowledge her lycanthropic qualities, rather than being solely bewitched. The young woman has primitive elements, but they are contextualized as belonging to his list of curiosities about her, leading him to not dwell on her suspicious side, but more so trying to persuade himself to focus on her human form. Whilst she does not undergo full lycanthropic metamorphosis in front of him, this change is suggested but due to the romanticized hyper-femininity, is ignored.