A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella"
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Cinderella
Anne Sexton
1971
Introduction
Anne Sexton was one of the leading American poets of the 1960s and 1970s. Together with her friend Sylvia Plath and their teacher W. D. Snodgrass, they became the leaders of the confessional school of poetry that took the private details of the poet's life as subject matter for their work. Sexton's poetry grew out of the emerging use of poetry as a tool of psychotherapy, which established another new direction in poetry. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967. Sexton's 1971 collection Transformations reworked sixteen of the Grimm brothers fairy tales into a ironic poetic analysis. Cinderella
holds up the happily-ever-after fairy-tale marriage of the original as an ironic mirror to the pre-feminist social role of women as housewives in 1950s and 1960s America.
Author Biography
Sexton was born on November 9, 1928, in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father, Ralph Harvey, owned a successful woolens firm so she grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class surroundings. She began working as a fashion model while in high school and never earned a diploma. At age nineteen, Sexton broke an earlier engagement to elope with Alfred Sexton, who also became a successful businessman in the wool trade. Sexton followed the conventions of her day and settled into a suburban life as a wife and mother. She only began to write and read literature seriously after she entered psychiatric care for depression in 1955. By 1957 she was taking courses with the important confessional poet Robert Lowell at Tufts University. She had the good luck to study alongside other rising poets with whom she became friends and collaborators, including Maxine Kumin and Sylvia Plath. These connections also allowed her to attend the Antioch Writers Conference in 1957, where one of the instructors was W. D. Snodgrass, another