Jennifer Kursman's The Sw A Fairytale

In Jennifer Kursman’s “The Swan: A Fairytale,” Kursman criticizes how American culture favors beauty over character. She explains that American culture forces women to put their looks before their brains. Kursman uses the TV show, The Swan as “ammunition” to prove their point. She believes that our culture states that, “every girl’s dreams should center on the concept of physical metamorphosis.” This explains the disapproving feelings that Kursman finds in our culture and what it expresses about women because she believes that character is more important than “physical metamorphosis.” Emphasizing that even the thought of it is poison for girls or women, she also talks about, “The American dream,” saying that it equals success or beauty, both