In this fairy tale, the sin of gluttony is present. The whole story revolves around food from the first piece of bread given to the children to the woman wanting to eat Hansel and Gretel. The children in Hansel and Gretel ate with all their hearts because they were hungry and poor. It is safe to say that they probably never gazed upon so much food. Though the children were hungry and needed to eat, the excess of food consumed could have led to gluttony. “Hansel had already eaten a good piece of the roof and Gretel had devoured a couple of small round windows.” Still they ate more: “[the woman] served them a good meal of milk and pancakes with sugar and apples and nuts.” Jeffrey Kottler explains in Stories We’ve Heard, Stories We’ve Told: Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life, that “Hansel and Gretel ignore warnings of danger – and their intuition – when they give in to their gluttony.…show more content… It is an unforgivable act in society and the eyes of God, and so she was punished and “was miserably burned to death.” She was the representation of gluttony in this tale. She had lost control of herself as she delved further into her pursuit for physical matters. All that is sugary or delicious is dangerous to the characters. By consuming the gingerbread house, the children were captures by the “old ancient woman.” She thought they were “sleeping so sweetly,” and then were killed by one of them. The house takes the form of the children’s temptation but they managed to avoid succumbing to it. In this tale Overindulgence and gluttony is
