How I have got obsessed with The Little Red Riding Hood

Why this little girl has to go out alone to the dangerous woods?

 Well, everybody knows this Red Riding Hood story, but don't you think the details have a lot of things that you can't explain? At least I found things can not be easily understood.

 Why this very little girl has to be alone when she goes to her Grandma's?
 Why did mother let her go knowing there must be dangers like encountering a big bad wolf?  
Why the Grandma lives alone in the woods?
Why did Mr. Hunter come to her house and could find out there must be something wrong inside the house? Does he often visit Gramma's house? Could it be possible that he is one of her boyfriends? Then what about the wolf himself? What if there was a rivalry between the two of them beforehand?

The metaphor of Sexual attractiveness

Why does this story begin with the depiction that how the girl is adorable? And she knows the red riding hood which her Grandma gave to her even makes her look prettier. How can you explain the contradiction her Mother has; saying be careful and letting her go out with a pretty outfit?

Of course, folktales are always symbolic. All these whys should be explained symbolically.
So, I made a hypothesis that this is a story about the lessons that every female gets through.
Since this heroin knows how attractive she is already, there must be something more that she has to learn by getting into the woods. As a woman or a girl, I think.

Why did Gramma give the girl the red hood? ( A hood, hat, coat or Clark munt, whatever) Though the red attention-getting clothes may give her more danger.
It makes sense if the two older women; her Mother and Grandma tried to give her a mission to learn how to control her charm.

So, the red clothes must be a symbol of the attractiveness of the young girls and being a little means she just starts to know she can fascinate the males but doesn't know how to protect herself yet. 

The woods are the place you have to be alone anyway without Mammy's protection. Because Mammy nor Grandma cannot help her when she finds her own man.

The difficult mission we all have

Then the wolf can not be only an enemy or a predator. He is not only a seducer but can be a future partner if he is "good" enough. But maybe not yet.
Why? Because the girl hasn't learned what kind of male is enough and fair to be her man and most of the boys are just tend to be "hungry", you know. (but she doesn't know.)
Hunger without love is harmful to her. This harm even can end her life. And even if he loved her, he does not always pass the examination as to her man.

I heard the voice of the Mother in my mind. 
------You should be very careful because most of the man only interested in eating you up.  Never let them "eat" you but find and choose "a good one" for you.
The wolves might look nice and kind, but don't be deceived by his appearance. Avoid risks and survive! It doesn't mean you should stay being unattractive. Be pretty, get attention to find the good one. But don't get eaten by the other of them. Then the good one would protect you from the other. (Just like the hunter did?) 

Wow. Doesn't it sound difficult? Awfully difficult indeed!
But Isn't it the mission that every woman has to get through ever since she becomes "look tasty" in her adolescence?
If so, aren't we all one of the Little Red Riding Hood with this double bind assignment? 

The Little Red Riding Hood Galore

Then I have got obsessed with this story. I have noticed that even the Mother and the Grandma are the same as the little girl in terms of having survived with this problem.

I started painting many Symbolical Red Riding Hood pieces. The story can be analyzed in many ways and can be twisted into hundreds of variations when you know that we are all Red Ring Hoods!
That's how my obsession had begun.

to be continued ( because The older folk story was even more impressive)

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