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What bothers you more stepmother? That I am common? Or that I am competition?
— Ever After · 1998
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker challenges a stepmother with a pointed either-or question: is her disdain about the speaker being common, or about the speaker being a rival? The second option turns the accusation around, implying the stepmother's contempt may be rooted in threat rather than status.
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