Glenda

Men throughout the film use Glenda, this includes her being used by both Kinnear and by Carter. Kinnear uses her to seduce Carter and Carter uses her when he wants to sleep with her.

Apart from when the men in the film want to use her, she is placed in the background and ignored by those around her. In the scene when Carter is meeting with Kinnear her voice is drowned out by the men around her, signifying that what she has to say is of less importance.  

In Laura Mulvey’s theory “visual pleasure and the narrative cinema.” She states her belief that the role of female characters serves two purposes, either as an erotic object for another character or for the spectator. Glenda, when seen through Carter’s perspective is not shown as a full person, but in segments. This depicts her as an object who exists