By F. Mason Hertrich

Obviously since magic does not exist someone can't use that, but with marriage yes. Also important to remember that the story of Cinderella takes place at a time when women had virtually no rights. People nowadays also live in places and work jobs they don't like, because they do not have any other options. However that is usually when people don't have money and can't change it because of that. In Cinderella's case the house is very big and they have money, the stepmother thinks of her as a leftover from getting the house. Even though the father is still alive he does not run the house, and even when someone asks if Cinderella is his daughter he says it is his dead wife's child. As if he wasn't the father. Therefore even though the father is still alive he may as well be dead. Nonetheless she could leave, but even if she could she would probably have not really any other options that were different. So naturally she thinks of being married and thus being set free from her stepmother. In real life obviously many marriages take place, solely because one just wants the others money. That is still quite true today, and therefore is still pretty realistic. However I feel like in the story they would probably go with she is marrying him for love, but then there is the fact that he went from house to house in his kingdom to find someone who fit the shoe size. Meaning that she clearly had a big effect on him.

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