Jiaqi Yu
LIBA3301
Critical Reading: Fairy Tales
Maggie DiVito
Feb. 1st, 2023
Frankly speaking, these three fairy tales are a little bit obscure to me, and I may still have some
misunderstandings about the article Daiichi, but I tried my best to understand them. In The
Werewolf, I also saw similar parts with Little Red Riding Hood, the answer is more different, the
little girl in this story is more brave and decisive, she is not afraid in the face of danger, and
quickly resisted and took the cut off wolf's paw as her "trophy", the later story I also I didn't
understand whether the witch turned into a werewolf and was finally killed, or whether the
grandmother herself was a witch and was finally killed by the little girl accidentally.
In Company of Wolves, I saw a fairy tale that was more gory and had more sex-related
comments and words. In this story, I saw a girl who fell into the trap called love without any
reluctance, she just saw and believed the stereotype of werewolves that others said, so when she
compared them one by one, she found that the other side was completely different from the
werewolves in other people's mouths, she let her guard down, plus the patient layout and lure of
werewolves day after day, the girl was completely blinded under the sugar-coated shell, and
finally went to the sad The girl was completely fooled under the sugar-coated shells and finally
came to a sad ending.
In Wolf-Alice, I understood the first half, the girl was raised by wolves so she didn't know how
to live and take care of herself like a normal girl, but she also learned a lot of self-care skills and
became friends with herself in the mirror as she observed day after day. I didn't understand the
second half of Duke's story very well, and I felt that the scenes and the story became fragmented
for me.