Analysis Letter To Sulaiman Hassan By Anne Sexton

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December 5, 2014

Sulaiman Hassan
Tucson, Arizona
United States of America

Dear Sulaiman Hassan,
Thank you so much for your compliments. It is always my joy to see readers so enthusiastic about the literary works that am involved in. As a character, I have always been depicted as a fighter for good (Ulanov 77) and personally I think this depiction represents exactly who I am and what my principles are. There is however certain times that writers decide to use my character in their works and end up using it the wrong way, these writers do not express the ideas that I portray and send a completely different message to my audience.

The poem written by Anne Sexton is one that has stimulated curiosity and interest especially among my audience who, in many scenarios left in a state of limbo, not knowing what to hold on to and what not to. The poem depicts me as a lady desperate to go to the ball and thus goes ahead and orders my godmother to take me to it. There are two aspects of the writer’s view that I don’t no agree with. The first bit is the desperation and the second part is the ordering bit of it. As a character that symbolizes humility and patience, I am not desperate to attend the ball and I am respectful enough to ask my godmother if I want to go in a nice and polite way. In truth, my character sees the opportunity to go to the ball as an opportunity to do something she thought was impossible, something she never thought could happen. …show more content…

I believe the main reason is because I felt that my position in society was low compared to the prince. Even though I came as a princess, the reality was that in the end I was just a poor orphan who doesn’t have a family name or wealth to show off as my own (Ulanov 65). I was fearful that the prince in the end may come to know my poor status and be angry at me and this doubt always haunted

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