| In Disney's version, Cinderella technically is not an orphan, since her father remarried when she was little: "Here in a stately chateau, there lived a widowed gentleman and his little daughter Cinderella. Although he was a kind and devoted father, who gave his daughter everything she desired, still he felt she needed a mother's care. And so he married again, choosing for a second wife, a woman of good family, with two daughters just Cinderella's age...It was upon the untimely death of this good man, however, that the stepmother's true nature was revealed." |