Unlike any other form of literature or entertainment, Fairy Tales help children to discover their identity and suggest experiences needed to develop their character. In Bruno Bettelheim's "Life Divined from the Inside" Bettelheim states that "Fairy Tales intimate that a rewarding, good life is within one's reach despite adversity-but only if one does not shy away from the hazardous struggles without which one can never achieve true identity (Bettelheim 106). Anne Sexton's "Cinderella" is a perfect example of Bettelheim's definition of a Fairy Tale.
The story of Cinderella is a classic story that has had many different versions. Anne Sexton's version, begins as Cinderella's mother is on her death bed. She is telling Cinderella to "Be Devout. Be Good. Then I will smile down from heaven in the seam of a cloud." (Sexton 85) With the death of Cinderella's mother, we get Bettelheim's first example of a Fairy Tale; adversity for Cinderella. As the story goes on, Cinderella's father......

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