Cinderella By Ada Ross

Flora tells a story that her mother used to sing songs in German and her voice would echo across the valleys in celebration, before there was a accident. One day when my mother and father were singing together in the forest, a great storm blew up out of nowhere. But so passionate was their singing that they did not notice, nor did they stop. When their voices rose for the final bars of the duet a great bolt of lightning came out of the sky and struck my father so that he net up in flames like a torch. At the same moment my father was struck dead my mother was struck dumb and never spoke another word. In Flora’s fantasy, her father died and her mother was struck dumb as punishment for their passion, for the joy of their own voices. Many people

When Stewart and his helpers begin carrying her belongings from the beach, Ada writes on the pad she carries around her neck in all caps, “I NEED THE PIANO," and Stewart, mistaking muteness for deafness, shouts back, “Too heavy.” The piano produces an effect to their relationship. Stewart’s refusal to carry her piano, even with enough men to do so, shows his ignorance towards her and the failure to connect. She faces harsh restraints without her piano. She is prohibited to her expressions, ideas, and emotions. and to experience feelings and thoughts that she is able to transcend through the music she plays. Her passion has the ability to make contact with others besides Flora. The piano can express the full range of human emotions that are expressed usually by words such as playful, sad, romantic, spiritual, passionate, lonely, violent, tender. Ada’s self-expression is dismissed and left behind on a beach by her husband, where it daily threatens to be washed away forever and never to be heard by the New World. Ada looks back at the piano as her soul just left her and sees the rising tides sending a wave rushing under the piano causing it to not be safe. This image captures the isolation that torments each character and the great distance that divide

It is difficult to believe these delicate Victorian creatures will survive by being dressed in such elaborate layers of clothing seems out of place. Ada is trapped in a world where her husband can only understand the language of his world, not hers. Therefore, Stuart, takes full control of her possessions and gives away her piano which symbolizes her only voice. Soon after, Ada became married to Stuart and she lost all her rights including having the ability to divorce her husband. Their marriage symbolizes unnatural Victorian clothing in a harsh natural environment. She and her husband pose for their wedding photograph in the rain. Clearly, nature is stronger than culture. Once inside, Ada pulls the dripping wet dress from her, ripping part of the gown in anger of her situation. During this time, a husband had complete control over his wife. Stewart thinks of Ada like a pet, and that she will somehow love him if he acts the part man in caring for her material but none of her emotional needs. Another man on the island named Baines, watches Ada with interest, including her fury at having to leave the piano behind. Ada is pretty much loses locked away and made prisoner by her husband. She becomes depressed and heartsick; temporarily powerless to