Cinderella By Anne Sexton Analysis

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Not a Cinderella Story In the original story, Cinderella is a poorly treated housemaid who gets help from a fairy godmother to go to a ball. Where she is having the time of her life and also meets her prince charming. They fall in love and live happily ever after. Leaving the reader to ask questions. What happened? Where did they go? What is their happily ever after? In Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella” she makes the reader think about these questions. The speaker in “Cinderella” is an older person who is looking back on life. In the first four stanzas the speaker is talking in a tone of remembrance. Saying all of the good things that is happening in these stories. Like “Or the nursemaid, some luscious sweet from Denmark who captures the oldest son's heart. from diapers to Dior. That story.” Later in the last stanza the speaker say, “Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the …show more content…
“The man took another wife who had two daughters, pretty enough but with hearts like blackjacks.” shows that the daughters are violent and cruel toward Cinderella. When cinderella is putting on her slipper for the prince, Sexton uses the simile “This time Cinderella fit into the shoe like a love letter into its envelope.” to show how easy the slipper fit in her foot. Sexton also uses repetition in the first few stanzas saying “That story” showing that the speaker is an older person. Sexton, using devices like tone, imagery, and style, that makes the reader understand how ridiculous, unrealistic, and unlikely the fairy tale ending actually is. Letting people know that stories like this hardly ever happen, but when it happens it is a special thing. Like Sexton wrote “You always read about it: the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to