Alfred Aldrich Letter To John's Wife

1. Alfred Benedixen’s claim about the way men imagine women helps us understand Aldrich’s story because it states on page 2, “Aldrich explores the ways in which a woman becomes the subject of the male imagination and the object of male fantasies.” This is clearly shown through examples and letters that are in Aldrich’s story. The young woman that Edward introduced to John was suggested by John’s doctor in attempt to get John’s mind off of his leg. Eventually that’s exactly what happened with the letters. The more that the letters were sent to one another, the more revolved around Miss Daw it was. John never even met Miss Daw and yet he was already imagining her and asking for more details claiming that it could be somebody that he could find