It starts with a fairy tale story, where all the magical things happen and it ends happily. Goodness is rewarded but the wicked are punished. The closing of the story always ends with "and they lived happily ever after", and the main character becomes unhappy but gets happiness in the end. The traditional story figure of Cinderella goes from rags to riches. It begins with a poor maid named Cinderella whose stepmother and stepsisters treated her unkindly, but with the help of her fairy godmother, Cinderella found her Prince Charming. In Anne Sexton's Cinderella story, the author made changes to the traditional fairy tale by adding her own story. Throughout the poem, Sexton uses sarcasm to end the tale by beginning the readers' expectation of a happy ending and a traditional fairy tale fading away. In doing so, it shows the difference between the world of fairy tales and that of reality. Sexton's poem mocks the traditional happy ending. He is trying to show the reader that happy endings don't even exist in reality. Overall, Sexton's poem would be considered a dark classical fairy tale that includes violence and gory details. By examining literary devices such as the author's attitude toward the words he says, sensory details that denote specific physical experiences, and clichés that imply some kind of comparison, explicit or implicit, the reader will gain an understanding of what the author is trying to prove. a point in its history. The tone of irony/sarcasm in Sexton's “Cinderella” story can be observed in the repeated phrase of “That Story.” The author uses particular phrases that seem to criticize the story that anticipates the joke. Another way tone can be interpreted is that the author is p... in the center of the paper... er, will be. The poem also bears a resemblance to Sexton's personal life; she was the daughter of alcoholic parents who were neglectful and verbally abusive, which can be interpreted by her stepmother's rudeness towards Cinderella, except for the alcoholic part. Overall, the tone of the author using "That story" in each stanza, figurative speech such as "he looks like Al Jolson," and the imagery of the nanny changing from diapers to Dior all work together to prove his point. Another way to look at it is that Sexton is a confessional poet, so she tells a story that everyone has heard before, but she rewrites it again to inform everyone that Cinderella's story is impossible in real life. The author seems bitter and pessimistic throughout the poem as she tries to temper her realistic interpretation of what everyone considers to be a happy ending story..