Fairy Tales

Throughout the ages there has been a particular fairytale that has caught the attention of many young girls and other audiences like authors. Every girl who has felt unhappy or ugly at one time or another can relate to this story. Cinderella, the poorly mistreated girl by her step mother and sisters was an unhappy girl who went on to find her prince charming and lived the “cliche” happily ever after ending. As any other popular story there will be authors who write their own version on the story. Anne Sexton described by Jo Gill as a confessional writer, the “Mother” of confessional poetry (Gill, 425).

Jo Gill explains that Sexton is someone who writes based upon what she feels and reveals her real emotions usually tend to me darker as any other confessional writer. Her own accounts on her version of Cinderella give a perfectly good example of her style of writing. As Sexton, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm also wrote their ghory version of Cinderella but portrayed the main character Cinderella in a slightly different than manner. According the the Grimm brothers “folk poetry was the only true poetry, expressing the eternal joys and sorrows, the hopes and fears of mankind.” (Brothers Grimm, Britannica encyclopedia) Even though they interpreted the same story their portrayal of Cinderella was quite diferent.

In the beginning of Sexton's interpretation she begins by giving cliche examples of what a happily ever after ending is. In one of her examples she states “ the nursemaid, some lucious sweet from Denmark who captures the oldest son's heart. From diapers to Dior. That story.” (Sexton) Sexton makes it sound as if finding your “pince charming” is a common everyday thing. The Grimms brothers portray Cinderella as angelic by what her mother told her which was “ Dear child, remain piuos and good,and then our dear God will alwats protect you, and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you.” (Grimms) By the Grimms brothers describing her in this manner it...