Question Following Chapter Three

So far, the story has had many traditional fairy tale elements in it. At the beginning, the family structure shown to you is close to that of Cinderella. Psyche, like Cinderella, is a beautiful girl (at puellae inioris...poterat) who is repressed by her older sisters who go off and get married. This story is also like that of the movie Hercules. She is beyond human in her beauty but because she lives with mortals, no one understands her and no one will ever want to marry her. (non rex... nuptias petit). Finally, the story has the fairy tale elements of Romeo and Juliet. She likes her life and the love she has, (Pysche tali vita delectari coepit) but it can never be true as some part of it must be hidden from the world.