![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Maguire's most obvious concerns is with female solidarity. In Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by contrast, his strategy with the Cinderella story is to show the two stepsisters of the beautiful Clara as very different from each other, and Clara herself as a passive-aggressive young woman determined to make life difficult for all around her. The Oz sequence that started with Wicked is a straightforward validation and mitigation of the Wicked Witch of the West's personality and crimes. Gregory Maguire, who has made a speciality of them, is far too canny a writer to have only one set of tricks. The old, good stories are capable of endless revisiting and revisionism. ![]()
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