<Tab/>With many variations of fantasies, "Happily ever after" is reoccurring in every fairy tale. "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton is a different variation of the classic tale. The author sets up her version of Cinderella with four anecdotes sharing how others can go from poverty to riches or gritty reality to fantasy. Sexton changes her happily ever after ending by satirizing the message the story gives. By doing so, Sexton would …showed first 75 words of 970 total…

…showed last 75 words of 970 total…message that is going out from these fairy tales and how the fantasies direct the wrong message to the readers. Through her sarcasm the reader too feels like they are making fun of the theme of happily ever after. Sexton portrays the meaning of her poem by changing the expectations of the reader in reference to the traditional story of Cinderella. Sexton wants her readers to live in reality and not wait for prince charming.