Dear Joe:

No, I didn’t read The Bloody Chamber, not that I remember. I just read the story summary of the first story in the anthology of ten stories, The Bloody Chamber (Wikipedia), a horror story, reads to me.

You wrote: “What if the protagonists of fairy tales and well-known children’s stories were the villains…”

I am thinking, the public image of a lot of people in real life, past people we read about in history, present people nowadays, in business, entertainment, politics, in families and in the neighborhood, lots of people have reputations or public images that are not congruent with who they really are.

The Marketing business is about selling reputations, or perceptions of people, with no concern to the truthfulness of what they present to the public.

anita