Review: It's all in the perspective...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
Ever heard the phrase, 'It's all in the perspective?'This re-telling of Cinderella, is told from the point of view of one of the step-sister's. Anastasia, the younger, 'uglier' step-sister, gained my sympathy almost immediately. In her opinion of the way things happened, the tale of Cinderella takes on a whole new spin.Cinderella is a self-centered martyr who uses every one of her sacrificial acts as a way to gain attention and sympathy. Prince Charming is an idiotic, egomaniacal jerk whom she feels, doesn't deserve the beautiful Cinderella. Anastasia, on the other hand, just wants someone to love her and think she's beautiful. Told that she needs to find a husband to save her family, Ana tries her best to appear beautiful and graceful. She tells how her mother was devastated by the loss of her husband, Cinderella's father, and how, no matter what she, her mom, and her sister, tried to do to make Cinderella feel like they were one big family, Cinderella would never accept them.Interesting and fresh, this short story will have you wondering how you could've just blindly believed Cinderella all these years.