Cinderella

               After reading the Cinderella poem not so sure that it paints a good picture for Feminists. The poem portrays women trying to win over a man in order to improve their life. A man holds a ball aka "marriage market" to where all the women get dressed and don't look like they usually do in order to impress the man. Early on you get the feeling that man is far superior to women and that all women need to put on a costume to impress men instead of being themselves.
              Also talks about how the women hurt themselves in order to make the glass slipper fit.  One of the sisters cut her toe off and the other her heel, so that they could fit into the shoe. I think a feminist lens would be dissapointed in the way this poem portrays women being weak and willing to do whatever to win the man over. It didn't make women strong or independent, but instead manipulative and fake. In the beginning of the poem the author gives examples of different stories about rags to riches which I felt foreshadow the poem on how Cinderella was going to come up.
               I thought the poem was an interesting portrayal of the story most of know from growing up. It  threw for a loop when it talked about the sisters cutting themselves so they could make the shoe fit. No feminist would think that is a positive way to represent women in general. That was the most obvious point in my eyes.