Guest Nose: Deva Fagan

Fortune's Folly, while not a direct fairy tale retelling, involves a lot of fairy tale elements. And beauty is most definitely a theme in a lot of fairy tales. If you do a scan of Western European fairy tales (for example, those collected by the Brothers Grimm) you will find that "beautiful" or "handsome" is often used as shorthand for "good". And while there are exceptions (such as the beautiful but wicked queen in Snow White) it is often the case that those who are "ugly" are also "evil".

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