![]() It’s a crucial reminder: Cinderella is not the only one who has known grief in this tale. The answer is: grief! While Lady Tremaine is not a character to sympathize with, Disney’s live-action adaptation at least gives time and place for her actions so that the audience can better understand her. The most widely accepted one is that Cinderella’s cheerful and positive demeanor, even in the light of abuse and deplorable living conditions, so repulsed the Stepmother that she just kept trying to beat that optimism out of the girl. Sure, there are innumerable theories across several academic disciplines that can give you theories on why the Evil Stepmother treated Cinderella the way she did. While it’s often a given that Lady Tremaine would have had to lose a husband in order to marry a new one, the idea that she had also known grief in her life is an aspect of the fairy tale scarcely considered elsewhere. Her new stepmother was also someone who’d known grief, the narrator tells us. Cinderella has grown into a young woman, portrayed now by Lily James, and her father informs her of his decision to remarry to Lady Tremaine, a widow with two daughters who recently lost her husband. Time passes and pain turns to memory, the narrator reminds us. These traits have power, more than she knows, she tells her. ![]() Disney’s live-action film depicts in clear detail how Cinderella loses her mother as a child, a woman who encouraged her love of imagination and whimsy, and pleads with her daughter on her deathbed to always have courage and be kind.
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