390 Roylott controls Helen and her property, and Holmes liberates her so that she can pursue her own life.

391 CD represents Holmes as a new hero.

392 CD constructs Roylott as "the other" and associates him with the Orient (baboon, cheetah, swamp adder, turkish slippers).

393 Nineteenth century is time of change in regard to legal reforms in property rights, labor, and state involvement in family estates and affairs.

394  Even though women had gained control over their property, the skills needed for administration of their property still resided in male
professions

395 Mrs. Stoner's will allows neither daughter to become independent; by ensuring her marriage, Holmes upholds the patriarchy and the story
suppresses Helen's voice.

396 The protection of female sexuality makes women both property and property owners, especially after the Married Woman's Act

397 The age of consent law (from 13 to 16) treated women as property or a sexual commodity in need of state protection.

398 Women are married property owners within the home, and sexualized objects without; this arrangement allows for the incest motif with Dr.
Roylott, the father-perpetrator and Orientalized "other."

399 Holmes's reasoning is seen as ideologically motivated and gifted, while the reader is able to identify with Watson in his awe of Holmes's
deductive skills.

400 The narration presents connections between male rationalism and
woman as "other."

401 Women's (new) social roles created tension between outside opportunities and domestic
responsibility/respectability.