The poem created a new way of looking at the widely accepted and rarely questioned fairy tale, Snow White. Keating presents the situation as if the stepmother is not evil, but rather, just looking for some needed attention from her husband. I have had a step-mom myself and I have never looked at it from this point of view.
             When I was younger, my step-mom was always nice to me and there were never conflicts between her, my brother, and I. She always seemed to be a fun, outgoing person that was easy to get along with. However, as I grew up, I realized she was merely doing her job. Now that I am older, she is not so nice anymore. She never says anything negative to my face or directly towards me. She always has some way of saying it to someone else while knowing that it will get back to me somehow. I have heard her call me spoiled and ungrateful in the background while I was having an argument with my dad over the phone. If something I do while I am staying with them, she never tells me directly. I always hear about it from my dad later, who really has no first hand knowledge of what the problem really is.
             Keating's poem sheds light on a different aspect of the situation. Instead of the stepmother being the evil one, the daughter takes on the negative role. In the poem it is depicted that she deliberately takes up her father's time so his wife cannot be with him. The stepmother believes that "she'll stop at nothing" in order to make her "invisible" (line 25, 31). The stepmother thinks that the daughter asks to be told stories about her mother not because she misses her, but rather, to cast a shadow over the stepmother and make it evident that she will never replace her mother.
             Keating's poem introduces a new perspective of Snow White and attempts to make people see the other side of the story. However, the fairy is so embedded into our minds that it is difficult for ma...