Note: "the apparent disparity of our ages by a thousand feminine arts" - "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley

Johanna Smith remarks that

If this story intends the reader to commend Winzy's self-knowledge and compassionate his imprisonment in immortality, it may also arouse the woman reader's sympathy for Bertha's imprisonment in the cultural prescription that feminine beauty be immortal. (40)

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