The author David Ketterer claims that the psychological interpretation of Frankenstein by William Veeder is the most comprehensive. Veeder’s key premise is that Mary Shelley’s novels "reflect her lifelong concern with the psychological ideal of androgyny and its opposite, bifurcation-the harmonious balance of traits traditionally considered masculine and feminine, and the desolating polarization of these traits" (p.267). For example, in the novel, all the characters Shelley created reflect the influence of the actual people in her life, but as she developed the characters, her subconscious made the decisions. In other words, her psychological problems and issues with the people close to her are reflected in the development of her characters
