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In 'Psychopath', also from Selling Manhattan, Duffy uses the dramatic monologue to present, and destabilise, the sexual power of men over women: No, don't. Imagine. One thump did it, then I was on her, giving her everything I had. Jack the Lad, Ladies' Man. Easier to say Yes. [...] She lost a tooth. I picked her up, dead slim, and slid her in. A girl like that should have a paid-up solitaire and high hopes, but she asked for it. A right well-knackered outragement. (49-54) While the voice of the woman is diminished by his 'Yes', he is essentially the weaker character; he has to physically abuse her to achieve his sexual status as 'Jack the Lad, Ladies' Man'. This is further problematised by the inference that he, too, is trapped within a received notion of identity; he has killed her, but it is more important to him that he lives up to the constructed image of...

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