![]() ![]() Note how, as they consummate their ‘union’, Carter likens the act to a ‘savage marriage ceremony’, and weddings recur in all of the stories told throughout ‘The Company of Wolves’, including in the preamble to the main ‘Red Riding Hood’ plot.īut whereas the wife from the earlier story loses her first husband, only to have him return and maim her eldest son before being chopped up (by her second husband, rather than by her own hand), the ‘Red Riding Hood’ figure from the main story can protect herself and take what she needs from this wild beast. ![]() And her actions – laughing defiantly in his face and tearing his shirt from his back – might be interpreted as the act of a woman in control, rather than desperate actions of a young girl doing anything she can to save her skin. ![]()
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