Snow White is lovingly waked by her housemates who place her on a bier. But she is awakened only when Prince Charming comes and plants one on her rosy lips. Back among the living Snow White rides away with her new boyfriend, with nary a second thought for her short friends. It's prototypical Disney. Young women are natural-born happy homemakers who lie in a state of suspended animation until a man gives them a life.
Older women are the enemy, especially if they seek power.
And Disney's animation teams fell into years of disarray and second-rate work. Some felt the Disney studio would never again produce a 'classic'. They were wrong. The Little Mermaid proved that the Disney studio still knew how to make a first-rate cartoon feature. The movie also proved that old attitudes towards women die hard.