Over the years, fairy tales have taught children that everything in life is "eternal happiness", when in reality it is not not always the case. Anne Sexton's poetic version of the Cinderella story is a more twisted version of the classic tale. It focuses on the dark and graphic descriptions of how Cinderella was led to her happily ever after. Alongside this tale, there is a theory of the “Other” that Simone de Beauvoir develops throughout her story of The Second Sex. The theory of the “Other” is a degrading way of describing women as objects. We see that once upon a time, decades ago, women accepted the role of object. Men are known as the subject. Men need and desire the woman, or the object when they come home every day. In a literary and grammatical sense, a sentence with just one subject is incomplete. It must be followed by an object. Relating this notion to people is that men are incomplete without women. Simone de Beauvoir explains it throughout the story: without women, there is nothing on which men can bounce back. Beauvoir states: “…through it there is constantly the passage from hope to frustration, from hatred to love, from good to evil, from evil to good” (de Beauvoir 144). This quote coincides with the cliché that without evil there is no good. A man needs this balance of life when he is in a bad situation for a woman to show him the good, or even the opposite so that he receives daily lessons. Back when women didn’t take a stand is when they were portrayed as “the Other”. Simone de Beauvoir speaks of the idea of ​​woman when she says: “She is made guardian of morals; servant of man, servant of the powers in place, she will tenderly guide her children along the designated path...... middle of paper ......man speaks good and the Other (or the woman) is known as evil. You have to work to attract opposites. Fairy tales are meant to remind us that “happily ever after” is another way of saying that everything will balance out and work out in the end. These two stories present the image of the “Other” in a very similar way. In The Second Sex of Simone de Beauvoir, they describe it as bad but necessary. And in the poem Cinderella by Anne Sexton, it shows aspects of how the “Other” is an object. All of these aspects of both stories come together when it comes to serving and meeting the needs of others as well as making a man feel whole. For the world to stop degrading women as objects, they need to assert themselves more. A debatable debate that many people wonder is whether sports create aggressive behavior or captivate those who are already aggressive...