The lack of definition in gender roles is central to a major body of Hitchcock’s oevre. Hitchcock usually incorporated the aforementioned theme to the mother-son relationships as seen in: Psycho, North By Northwest, Strangers on a Train, and as well as in Notorious. But, it is in Notorious that this Hitchcock-narrative-staple of undefined gender roles are to appear twice. To elaborate, what I mean to suggest is that the same character traits are overtly …showed first 75 words of 2424 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2424 total…as she knows the fate of its inhabitants. The final shot of the film is that of Alex in close-up, awaiting what is suspected to be his certain doom (by means of Hitchcock’s delicate placing of him in the frame and the expressionistic low-lighting of his face). As Devlin drives Alicia to what is suspected to be a hospital, Alicia is now free. And freedom in Hitchcockian terms is the freedom from being viewed.