After Len takes an interest in Ainsley’s infantilized version of herself (much to Marian’s dismay), Marian reflects on Len’s pattern of seducing young women and then being horrified when they give into his advances. Len’s outlook here—his “preference for ‘corrupting’ […] greenish girls” and then rejecting them as “spoiled”—epitomizes what psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud famously termed the “Madonna-Whore complex.” Freud’s theory dictates that for some men, women who were seen as sexual beings were automatically degraded and no longer worthy of care, even when these same men were the ones to initially sexualize the women; “where such men love they have…