Jessica Hale’s primary argument is that anxiety about family and individuality lead to more prominent social issues, in addition to concerns about globalization, imperialism, and slavery. Hale argues her position using psychoanalytic theories and direct quotes from Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. On page 12 of Hale’s article, “Constructing Connectedness: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” under the subtitle “Domestic and Public Spheres,” Hale makes many direct references to the text, Frankenstein. In the first paragraph, Hale inserts direct quotes such as “like a protecting spirit to the girl, who committed herself to his care” (18) and “it was an almost unquestioned premise that…both natural and divine law endowed the father with patriarchal authority as ‘head’ of a household” (60), and cited them both as such. Hale continues to cite direct quotes from the book throughout the rest of her article. Particularly on page 12, Hale cites from pages 17 and 18, and discusses the abnormal family unit. On page 13, Hale writes, “Schoene-Harwood identifies Alphonse and Henry as “men who feel secure enough in their masculinity to display feelings of domestic affection…who seem perfectly balanced in their manliness which incorporates rather than categorically excludes the feminine” (Schoene-Harwood 16).” This is Hale’s secondary source, quoting another article about the text she has chosen to analyze. There are a few words that are unfamiliar to me in this article, such as dichotomy, precludes, chattel, homosocial, and capacious. Definitions can be found using dictionaries such as Cambridge Free Dictionary, Dictionary.com, and Oxford-English Dictionary. For example, one foreign word that I encountered in Hale’s article was capacious. I went on to oed.com (Oxford-English Dictionary) and found the definition: capacious: adj; Of such size as to take in or hold; able to contain; having the capacity of or to; able to hold much; roomy, spacious, wide.