It is man's tendency to be mortal and defective, he argues in this story – that is exactly what being a human being is. What does it mean, then, that Aylmer needs to expel the pigmentation from his significant other's face? On a strict level, he needs to get rid of what he considers to be an unattractive birthmark. Be that as it may, on a normal level, he needs to free Georgiana from her imperfections. He needs to make it ideal. For the moment, how about identifying this birthmark and investigating its physical appearance on Georgiana: "To explain this conversation it must be said that in the center of Georgiana's left cheek there was a singular mark,... it defined its shape amid the surrounding pinkness. It gradually became more indistinct, and... on the snow, in what Aylmer sometimes considered an almost frightening clarity -2, par