The Breaking Away movie portrayed a lot of themes from Cinderella. They are so similar in so many things if not the same themes but different story plot. In the “Cinderella” and the loss of the father love there was a little girl named Ginny who always came second in her parents mind “’Cinderella’ was her chosen tale” (schectman 290) Just like Ginny, Dave’s chosen tale was being Italian, calling his dad, papa and his mom, mama and telling the girl that he liked that he is Italian. Not only that but also in paragraph four in the article Schectman said that every member of the family was responding to a loss (Schectman 291). In the movie everyone was reacting to a loss too for example; two of the four guys, Moocher and Cyril were responding
