The Most Popular Story Ever Written

There is no way to deny it: Cinderella is the most popiular story ever written.
It tells you to what happens to a young girl after her mother dies and her father marries again this time to a woman that is the closest to a witch without powerswho in turn has two horrible daughters that are not better at being stepsisters. When her father dies the young girl is left at the mercy of her stepmother and stepsisters who dilligently reduce the girl to a simple servant to whom they call Cinderella. One day, the king of that nation decides to find a suitable bride for his son and organizes a great ball to which all girls in marrying age are invited. And the stepsisters go but not Cinderella. It happens though that the girl has an ally, her fairy godmother, who grants her wish to attend the ball and for that she gives the girl a carriage, a beautiful dress and a pair of glass slippers. All these gifts would magically disappear as the clock strikes twelve. At the ball the prince and Cinderella fall in love with each other but as the clock begins striking the twelfth hour Cinderella runs away leaving behind one of her slippers and a disheartened prince. The following day the prince understanding that the girl wanted to hide who she was, decides to find her and vows that whoever prove is the real owner of the slipper would become his wife. The evil stepmother and stepsisters will certainly not let Cinderella show up and prove the slipper is hers.
We all know what happens next. It is a story so simple that is at the same time tremendously effective and versatile, it is in other words, the plot of all soap operas Latin American housewives adore so much, and more often than not, not only Latin American housewives. And that is what makes this story so popular: the myth of the poor girl who marries the prince is timeless. As long as there are people who fantasize with this story or stories the myth of Cinderella will live on, as they say, happily ever after.

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