... . Although I agree with many of the points that Toni Morrison made in her address, Cinderella's Stepsisters, to the students at Barnard College, I find myself in sort of a quandary. I do not wont to pretend to be as versed in women's rights and social issues as Morrison ... their own career. Morrison refers to this as abuse or violence ("... Professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence.) She then illustrates this by using the folktale of Cinderella, and specifically point's out the stepsister's abuse of Cinderella by inadvertently saying that they used her to get ahea...

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... in a lifetime, best exemplified by Nel's domestic life (Bressler 168). Just one year before the publication of Sula, author Judith Viorst published a revised telling of the Cinderella story (Bressler 142). This new version empowers Cinderella to realize that she "has opinions of her own" which leads to her refusal to be considered a "nonsignificant Other" (Bressler 143). In very much the same sense ... ...

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