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  • Essay / Psychological Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood

    Psychological Analysis of Little Red Riding HoodIn the story of Little Red Riding Hood, you hear about the grandmother, the granddaughter and the wolf. But the reader doesn't hear much about the mother. In Olga Broumas' poem "Little Red Riding Hood", the reader can hear about the mother's impact on Little Red's life, or lack thereof. At first glance, Little Red Riding Hood appears as the lament of a girl who misses a dead mother or who is trying to explain to her mother her lot in life. However, seen in the light of the psychological approach, the reader is able to see the writer's life in all its details: his sexual orientation, his hatred/fear of men and his inability to have children. The “she” being of course the writer. In the first part, we now address the narrator's sexuality. In the poem there was a line that said: I kept the hood secret, I kept it even more secret in its sheath. I only opened it at night, and with other women who were perhaps walking the same path to their own grandmother's house...their HOODS secured in the SAME PART (Stor...