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What Is The Evolution Of Angela Carter's Story?

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The Last evolution in Angela Carter’s story is when Little Red sleeps with the lycanthrope. This is one of the biggest changes that Carter made to the story. The Brothers Grimm version, the wolf eats Little Red and her Grandmother, then “lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud.” (Grimm). The wolf snored so loud that a huntsman came in the house and saw the wolf. Then the huntsman “took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf.” because he thought “the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved” (Grimm). While in Angela’s version, the lycanthrope eats the grandmother and then tries to eat Little Red. Little Red out smarted the lycanthrope and was not
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