Blog 8 Rags to Riches

“Rags to Riches” is a common motive seen in the Cinderella tales, but how realistic is this motive. Of course people can marry a person that is very wealthy and become rich themselves, but how often does that happen. Not very much, so when it does it is compared to a fairy tale because this is the most common place to see this occur. In the Cinderella tales you see a beautiful girl that is treated poorly by her step family and eventually is found by a prince because he found her glass slipper and they live happily ever after, with the evil step family somehow being punished. If only in real life could this happen to the average person on a regular basis. Even though a few lucky people get to live out this lucky rags to riches fairy tale, it does not always mean that they are happy because money doesn’t always bring happiness. A lot of times a person may come from "rags" and just find their dream person, not necessarily obtain riches from the marriage. A more convincing rags to riches story occurs for people who start at the bottom of the totem pole at their job and work their way up to get promotions and become rich and successful like they wanted. Although Cinderella is a great tale it is not very realistic.