One day a vain and proud miller boasted about his beautiful and clever daughter to the king, telling him that she could spin gold out of straw. Since I am not dead, and am living still…Ĭatherine is the name I’ve given to the woman in “Rumpelstiltskin”. But royal fathers–dear husband, aging Highness, what would happen to your precious lineage if my, your, only son were to suddenly– Proud fathers want very much to pass it on. And I have learned the force of threat, and the importance of a name–especially if it is male. Can you imagine what it is like to be married–legally bound to honour and obey until death, and socioeconomically bound with little option but to stay and make the best of it–to a man who didn’t believe me, a man who locked me in a room for three nights, a man so greedy that he said three nights in a row he’d kill me unless I did as he wanted? And that was before he owned me.īut as the tale says, I am shrewd and clever. Thus, for all intents and purposes, I also lost my life.
(And one sentence–one sentence in the whole tale is devoted to that ‘choice’, that decision to give up my child in return for my life.)īecause I ‘succeeded’ on the third night, I was ‘rewarded’ with marriage to the King. To pay for my father’s ridiculous lie, I lose my sanity, my freedom, and my dignity for three nights–and almost my child, forever. He chose instead to believe the words of an immature, egotistic, vain man. I told the King I most definitely could not spin gold out of straw. For whether it is to be filled with joy and delight from being with my newborn, or empty with grief and loss from separation is to be decided by a mere guessing game. So his name is very powerful, it is very important. This man’s name is the answer to the question upon which rests the fate of myself and my newborn child. I’m the main character–in a tale titled with the name of one of the men in the story. That you don’t recognize me by name is but the first of my complaints about my tale. “I loved the sassy voices in these stories, and the humor, even when making hard points.” PJ O’Brien, 5/5, Smashwords The stories are presented as a character from the story addressing the reader and explaining what really happened.” Jeremy’s Novels You grow up hearing these fairy tales all of your life more or less the same way, but this work puts them in a whole new light and allows you to explore ideas that you may have never thought of before.
“Snow White Gets Her Say revisits classic fairy tales and presents them to a reader in a new light … I find this aspect interesting. “So I didn’t know what to expect when I read this … it was a fast read (not sure it took me an hour ) … laughed a lot (and sitting on a plane that made for some interesting looks) and when i finished … the only thing i could think of is … why isn’t anyone doing this on stage … and why not throw a couple of the boys in there with it (they can have their own crazy feminist slant) … what a great night of theater that would be … and in case you are wondering … my fave story in the collection is in fact Snow White’s … but the stepsister’s is a close second …” szferris, Librarything I got quite attached to them.” Fiddlehead “The voices you catch out of the old fairy tales are very impressive.
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