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The central problem in The Winter's Tale is Leontes's struggle with his homosexual attachment to Polixenes. This gives rise to a long siege of delusional suspicion of a romantic link between Polixenes and Leontes's wife, Hermione. Resolution is achieved when his daughter, Perdita, marries Polixenes's son, Florizel—an allegorical union of Leontes's feminine self with Polixenes's masculine self.