"a man's need are full of greed... a man's needs are lost on me..."

The two main male characters in The Bloody Chamber are the narrator's husband, the Marquis, and the piano tuner and these male characters have quite opposing roles.

The Marquis symbolises the stereotypical man of power, with his size and experience. The narrator describes the way that he looks at her like "the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh" as though she is little more than an object. He seems to have a somewhat stereotypical masculine belief that a woman is no more than object of desire, who's purpose is to please a man by being at his every command. The way in which she describes him is seemingly unpleasant; "opulent male scent of leather and spices" and she often uses quite animalistic words to describe his physical appearance; "leonine".
It is clear that he is great in both size and power through her descriptions of his physical appearance and his attitude towards her. For example, after they have consummated their marriage she describes him as being "felled like an oak" which gives an indication of his size.
He also seems to show his power and size through the fact that he treats his wife almost as a child; "took me to perch on his knee", which suggests that he oppresses her as though she is merely an object rather than his wife.

The shy and unassuming piano tuner, on the other hand, is quite the opposite of the Marquis. Due to his blindness he does not see our narrator for her physical appearances, as the Marquis does, and is therefore more interested in her personality and who she is as a person. When she talks about her first encounter with him she describes him as being "all most satisfactory" which could be interpreted as being quite satisfactory or as being 'almost' satisfactory, which could be in reference to his blindness. It is as if his lack of sight and his inability to admire a woman's physical appearance means that he lacks in the power had by a man who can look at women. This, and his low standing as a blacksmiths son, means that he does not have any power over our narrator therefore giving her the ability to judge him and for a woman to have power over a man.