The presentation and the resolution of the story are unique. The titular story is thematically old - baby princess is fated to be stolen by fairies, is stolen by fairies, meets fairy prince, their intense love breaks spell. While the story is seen from a different angle, none of the mystery or magic is lost, as often happens in re-tellings that become deconstructions.Ī Door in the Hedge has both traditional stories and completely new works. She is illustrating a perspective on events rather than the events themselves. Instead of the grand, sweeping narrative she focuses on the experiences of individual characters. What all of McKinley’s books have in common is that they are very personal stories. Her re-tellings are not modernizations nor are they deconstructions. It continued her practice of re-telling familiar fairy tales.
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