From the very beginning of the novel, Ludmila hold a power over our main character, as the main character fell in love with Ludmila even before he knows who she is.(q) The man even travels across the world for this girl and became a double agent. Ludmilla also have the power over Flannery, who she permanently affected. (Q)Flannery was unable to write because he’s so addicted to watching Ludmilla reading and simply wanted to be able to write novels that Ludmilla would pour over but lacked the knowledge of how to do so Flannery's voyeuristic relationship with a woman he observes reading his books certainly suggests masculine imprisonment, an obsessive desire to feel legitimation in being read and not in reading or hearing. The other example
