The Dreaded Glass SlipperIn 'Her First Ball' by Katherine Mansfield, she describes an enchanting scene of a young girl making her debut in modern society. His own feelings shine through the main protagonist, his own loneliness and desire for a real relationship. Mansfield shows how loneliness affects an author's writing through all the interference from the outside world that crosses his or her emotions. Her story is a bit of a Cinderella story at the beginning, but the ending is not a happily ever after story. The story reveals Mansfield's personal emotions put into his characters and it creates a romantic fairy tale image for the reader. The focus of the story is whether Leila finds her prince and has the time of her life. The properties of Cinderella's complex appear in Mansfield's "Her First Ball" through examples of imagery, personification, the disposition of the main character, and the dream of a prince charming, revealing the author's emphasis on relationships between men and women. In Mansfield's life, she had a broken marriage, although she never divorced her husband, he left her with more sorrow than joy. Without the presence of her partner, she becomes obsessed with fairy tales; she wrote a statement to her husband saying: “In 1920 she wrote to him: “I consider the fairy tale to be our story in reality. It's a wonderful symbol. The prince and princess end up getting married […]” (Lederman page 35). Her husband married her for the money and he never really kept her company. The absence of love from her husband, father, and lost brother builds an obsession with romance and relationships between men and women. Her husband never shows that he truly loves her, causing her to turn to the fantasy and romantic world to fill this void. M...... middle of paper...... Mansfield's marriage and heartless husband ultimately help create her style and obsession with fairy tales. The Cinderella complex affects women in society by making them appear weak and in constant need of help and assistance from the opposite sex. The imagery and personification she uses to create the mystical and enchanting scene in the reader's mind truly makes the short story a work of romantic fantasy fiction. The disposition of the main character shows how the author thinks and emphasizes the importance of relationships between men and women. The dream and concept of a non-existent Prince Charming ruins the image of true love and wreaks havoc in the minds of women and girls. You take that idea of ​​infatuation and turn that image into true love. The Cinderella complex affects Mansfield in his writing style and his feelings towards love and romance..