"The Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter is based on the story of Red Riding Hood. The setting is a place that is extremely cold where the people are not long lived and their lives are hard. However, the heroine is not as adapt to the harshness of this life as "she has been too much loved ever to feel scared." Since she is the youngest child, her family has sheltered her from the cruel reality of life. Though this has turned her into a nice and trusting girl, it also means she is naïve to how the world truly works. Her naivete is what endangers her as well as saves her. Her blind trust makes her believe that the hunter has good intentions, but her empathy allows her to understand his pain and agree to 'marry' him. The narrator in "The Company