Both “Mannequin” and “Standing Female Nude” relate to the notion of body doubles through their character’s awareness of their body’s use in the fashion/art industry. In “Mannequin” Rhys writes, “She was fragile, like a delicate child, her arms pathetically thin. It was to her legs that she owed this dazzling, this incredible opportunity” (Rhys 2). In this excerpt from the short story, Anne knew what qualities had gotten her where she was, and it was in this moment that she became a temporarily rendered inanimate object. In “Standing Female Nude” Duffy captures the moment of self-objectification when she writes, “My breasts hand slightly low, the studio is cold. I can see the Queen of England gazing on my shape. Magnificent, she murmurs, moving on” (Duffy 1-6). Human bodies become their own uncanny doubles when they become aware of how society perceives them, and that there isn’t much to change this perception, especially in women. Such objectification, especially in women, renders them on a lower scale economically, socially, and intellectually. They are no longer seen as real humans with emotions and thoughts, but rather as mannequins to dress up and gawk at. I think the moments I cited above were the two moments that stood out to me the most as strange as troubling, because both ladies are aware of how they are being degraded, yet choose to do nothing about it because even if they did do something about, nothing would change. Also the fact that they stay in the game because of money or attention. It feeds into negative stereotypes about women.