Opinion | Syreeta McFadden: The Cinderella story has always evolved with the times. Rebecca Solnit's update is overdue. - NBCNewsTHINK
Beyond that, her “evil” stepmother is no longer strictly a villain but a societal force, an insatiable howling wind driven by greed, driven by a mindset that promotes the idea that there isn't enough abundance in the world to care for community and family.
Solnit attempts to dispel these tropes, addressing how that mindset limits the potential and the possible futures of young girls. “But there isn’t actually a most beautiful person in the world, because there are so many kinds of beauty,” she writes. “Some people love roundness and softness, and other people love sharp edges and strong muscles…. Some people love someone so much they forget what they look like.
Solnit’s tale rebukes the old patriarchal order in which we are immersed because it is through fiction — myths, folktales, novels — that readers are allowed the dream space to build pathways for innovation and practice empathy. “The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man,” Joseph Campbell wrote in “The Hero of Thousand Faces.
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