Comparison of Anee Sexton´s Poem Cinderella and Ernest...

â€Å"That story,† as used by Anne Sexton in her poem titled Cinderella, refers to tales of happily ever after, and challenges the existence such constant happiness. â€Å"That story† often referred to as a ‘Cinderella story,’ is the story of someone who is rescued from their unfortunate circumstances by someone or something. In Hills Like White Elephants, author Ernest Hemingway writes about a couple facing a life changing decision, where the man believes that if only the girl would agree to a â€Å"simple† procedure that things would be as before and they would be happy again. The couple in Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, accurately illustrates Sexton’s suggestion that happily ever after is a facade. Most people are familiar with the Walt Disney version of Cinderella, where Prince Charming rescues Cinderella from her evil stepmother. Anne Sexton’s poem refers to the much darker story written by the Brothers Grimm, in which the women of the story go to violent extremes to get their man. One of Cinderella’s stepsisters cuts off her big toe, and the other her heal in an effort to fit into the slipper and thus marry the prince. I believe the point Sexton makes is that we are responsible for our own happiness, and a life free from challenges is not really lived. No matter how hard we try to fit into someone else’s idea of who we should be, we will never be truly happy unless we are true to ourselves. People continue to grow and change, and cannot stay frozen in a perpetual