Sunday Story Ratings Return! #01 The Princes Bride

[aesmael]

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Originally published 1973; this edition 2007

Publisher: Harcourt

 

PG (L, V, D, H, S)

Some Coarse Language

Violence

Minor Drug Use

Supernatural Elements

Sexual References

 

Representations

Gender:

Bechdel fail. I think there is only one conversation between two women in the novel and it is a) about a man and b) didn't happen (Buttercup does talk to her mother at one point, but her father is in the conversation too. Also, it's about a man). Kind of unsurprising given the plot.

Sex:

So far as I am aware, everyone whose sexuality we have information about appears to be heterosexual

Race & Ethnicity:

Every character is some variety of white European or USAian except Fezzik, who is Turkish.

Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:

Three villains in the story are, respectively, hunchbacked, six-fingered, and an albino. The author-character's (fictitious, according to Wikipedia) son is fat as a child, and subject to much scorn by the author-character on this matter. One hero character has gigantism.