Kubrick has elaborated on King's idea by switching Wendy for Jack as the 'depressurizer,' alluding to an antinomy in the way women are positioned socially by men. It is a figure for woman's role as caretaker; yet is also defensive in that the act of soothing placates an anxiety that threatens to become violent against the woman if she ceases to soothe and to allay male fear. What this siggests is that male public violence against women lurks within the private, domestic sphere, where it is soothed and allayed. Women's role as caretaker is less a choice than the result of coercion, of the permanent possibility of violence that is embedded in her caretaking as the anxiety such caretaking assuages.