Analysis of “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton

 Select a poem, short story or play from one of the casebooks in our textbook that you have explored for the first part of the term. Read your selection using appropriate strategies covered in chapters 3, 4, and 5; then, write an essay in which you turn in toward the text using the tools of new criticism– imagery, symbolism, simile and metaphor, denotation and connotation, deconstruction–repetition and opposition; and/or turn out toward the text using the lens of gender studies, psychological theory, historicism, or new historicism. You may also use a combination of any of these strategies to support your thesis. Make sure that your essay has all of the components of a strong argument: a claim, reasons, and supporting evidence. All papers are required to use outside sources and a Works Cited Page to support the argument. Be sure to answer the “so what?” question in your paper. In other words, you need to explain why your analysis matters. Why is this analysis important for the reader to note? Instead of simply reporting what happens in the text, in your analysis, you should focus on why it happens.