The poem begins with an unforeseen non-traditional four short stories of people going from rags to riches, “You always read about it: / the plumber with twelve children who wins the Irish sweepstakes. / From toilets to riches. / That story” (1). Anne Sexton uses a cynical tone …show more content…
This poem exposes the concepts that have been passed along through for years though the different variations of Cinderella or fairytale stories in general that don’t actually happen in the real world. Anne Sexton depicts the fairytale from the real world in her poem by showing and demonstrating to the audience the fabricated ideas that are conveyed in fairytale stories. This poem follows along with certain pieces of the original story, but is more of a humorous poem in which Sexton’s goal is to let the readers know, fairytale stories are far from