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After revealing himself as a detective to Charlie, he says, “you’re going to keep your mouth shut.

Toward the end of the film, Hitchcock exposes Uncle Charlie’s extreme misogyny, as Uncle Charlie refers to widows as “faded, fat greedy women” and calls them “fat, wheezing animals.” In addition to revealing Uncle Charlie’s attitude toward women, Hitchcock draws attention to Jack Graham’s outlook on women. Near the beginning, after Emma speaks to the detectives, he says “women are fools, they’ll fall for anything.” He feels he has the power to take advantage of women and ultimately murder them. Uncle Charlie makes several demeaning statements to women over the course of the movie. The comments made toward women struck me throughout the film Shadow of a Doubt.