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When assessing the psychoanalytic perspective of fairy tales today, one can easily identify the in-depth association between the main character’s persona and what that portrayal represents in real life. According to Bettelheim, “…more can be learned from them about the inner problems of human beings, and of the right solutions to their predicaments in any society, than from any other type of story within a child’s comprehension” (Bettelheim, 5). For instance, in the Grimm Brother’s fairy tale, “Briar Rose,” one can visualize the implications within the story in regards to how they relate to reality. Such as, the common trend of a young girl’s most perfect dream of love and happiness ever after, in which psychoanalysts instill a decidedly lopsided interpretation of how life truly is in hopes to gain a correlation between the beauty and virtue as the vital aspect of a women’s existence. Though psychoanalysts can interpret “Briar Rose” in several different ways, I perceive the folk tale as ‘a females right of passage’ or ‘coming of age’. “Briar Rose” metaphorically illustrates both sexual maturity and the urgent need for marriage between one’s head and heart, as well as loss and recovery of