Anne Sexton Cinderella

The Raw Uncut Version Parents warn their children about “scary” movies being not real and made up, but they never warn children about fairy tales. Fairytales are to be hopes and desires and something every little girl should want to have when they grow up, and not unrealistic or demeaning like the real world is. In Anne Sexton poem “Cinderella” the narrator tales a tale that most people grew up on what seems to be a princess story. This story is unlike the rest. At the beginning of the poem, Cinderella’s mother dies, and her father soon remarried another woman who had two daughters that were not very nice and made Cinderella their maid. Cinderella was given a twig from her father that she grew by her mother’s grave that eventually grew into a tree where a magical wish giving dove sat. A day came where there

There’s never the headlines on ABC 30 of the man who won a million dollars and spent it all and is now homeless or got murdered by an ex-wife. Anne Sexton begins the poem by telling such stories, in her poem “Cinderella”, Sexton writes:

You always read about it:

the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to riches.

That story

In this poem Anne Sexton highlight the idea of the step sisters altering their body to be good enough for the prince. In her poem she writes: “He went to their house and the two sisters, /were delighted because they had lovely feet” (79-80). Anne Sextons uses this term lovely feet to describe that the sisters were very fond of their feet and didn’t previously have a problem with their feet until seen to not be good enough for the prince. Sexton states in the poem: “but her big toe got in the way so she