In Graham Smith’s “The Subway Grate in The Seven Year Itch: ‘The Staging of an Appearance-As-Disappearance,” he claims that “appearance-as-disappearance” refers to "creating a montage of attraction" by the act of revealing a women's undergarments, which in turn elicits eroticism (Smith 213). The act of “appearance-as-disappearance,” varies from cinema to literature, but either way they coerce sexual desire. In other words, “appearance-as-disappearance” means to make women an object of sexual desire by focusing on certain aspects of their body or clothing, which in turn prompts eroticism. In The Seven Year Itch, Marilyn Monroe’s character is downgraded form human to object of sexual desire for Richard Sherman, because she doesn’t have a name
