Clarissa Pincola Estes - Women Who Run With The Wolves - Myths And Storie By The Wild Woman Archetype - Plot & Excerpts
Now, though she gazes up at the red shoes on the shelf, she does not touch them. She has, to this point, tried going without her soul-life; that did not work. Next, she tried sneaking a dual life; that did not work either. Now, in a last-ditch stand, she “tries to be good.”The problem with “being good” to the extreme is that it does not resolve the underlying shadow issue, and again, it will rise like a tsunami, like a giant tidal wave, and rush down, destroying everything in its path. In “being good,” a woman closes her eyes to everything obdurate, distorted, or damaging around her, and just “tries to live with it.” Her attempts to accept this abnormal state further injure her instincts to react, point out, change, make impact on what is not right, what is not just.Anne Sexton wrote about the fairy tale “The Red Shoes” in a poem also called “The Red Shoes”:I stand in the ringin the dead cityand tie on the red shoes...They are not mine.They are my mother’s.Her mother’s before.Handed down like an heirloom but hidden like shameful letters.The house and the street where they belong are hidden and all the women, too, are hidden...Trying to be good, orderly, and compliant in the face of inner or outer peril or in order to hide a critical psychic or real-life situation de-souls a woman.
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