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Snow White. Cinderella. All about gettin' a guy. Being saved by the guy. Today it's Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas. All about gettin' a guy.
— Renee · Ally McBeal
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker lists older and newer stories to argue that their central promise keeps returning to finding a man or being rescued by one. Repetition makes that supposed pattern sound stubbornly persistent. The passage criticises the limited ambitions it sees being offered through these tales.
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