In other words, the author is comparing Antoinette's husband treating her as "the other" to the same way other white men treated black slave women as "the other". The reason why her husband treated him as "the other" is because her husband is a white man, who has racial stereotypes and wants to control everything he owns. Antoinette's Creole identity would suffer at the hand of any white man. She is also their wife. Any white man would do the same thing because he wants to control everything and feel more privileged, which ties into why her husband wants to own her. Wickramagamage further states: “…she is quick to come to their defense when her husband misunderstands their behavior, never attempting to dissolve the racial gap that separates her from them in the racialized social hierarchy of the West Indies. In fact, she is quick to take offense and readily resort to racist insults” (36). This shows that Antoinette was only defending her husband's stereotype of Christophine and did not try to dissolve her husband's racial stereotypes of her identity. As a result, she ultimately suffered from her husband's racial stereotype and was treated as "the other." We can tell that she was the one who let this happen because she simply embraced whatever she had to go through, which ties into why her husband would still have racial stereotypes about her and her husband could easily control them. Overall, races and gender were treated as "the other" due to white men's obsession with control and were simply embraced whatever they wanted.