Unshaven and unkempt, a brutish-looking man seizes a harpy by the wings and prepares to clip them with a huge pair of scissors. Since harpies are traditionally symbols of predatory women, the scene represents the rage of a man who feels himself to have been seduced – and perhaps manipulated and humiliated as well – and who vents his fury on his lover: it exposes the disturbing dynamics of male sexual desire.