Little Red Riding Hood Part 2

Possessed by Fate

Alone in the woods

Little Red Riding Hood one of my favorite tales, it is a tale that makes you question the role of LRRH, her grandmother and her mother and the wolf. Most people read the tale and assume that LRRH is a little girl but as I read it, it seems to me that LRRH is really a girl, perhaps at the edge of womanhood.
Sent off to her grandmother's to bring her goods, she encounters the wolf, tells him where she is going and essentially causes the "death" of both grandma and herself. Many have questioned where the mother was in all this, but not me. I see this story as warning to all girls but not about the dangers of talking to strangers. I see Little Red Riding Hood to be more about the dangers of being a young woman and trusting men.
Little Red Riding Hood is by far the most evolving of fairy tales, we see LRRH start out as a complete victim with no savior in Charles Perrault's 1697 and move to the victim that is saved by the woodcutter in the Grimm brothers' version 1812. In 1940, LRRH evolves in to an intelligent, gun toting little girl that's not afraid of the big bad wolf by James Thurber. In 1995, Roald Dahl has her evolve again and this time not only does LRRH shoot the wolf with her pistol she skins the wolf and makes him into a coat.
Today, we see tales of LRRH as the wolf herself, she is no longer afraid but is feared. She has gained power where there was none, as women have gained power. She is no longer the child but a woman capable of defending herself against those lurking in the woods.