Angela Carter

The werewolf is a reminder of  "The little red hood" the mother also asked her daughter to take some oatcakes to her grand mother. What was surprising is that the grandmother turned out to be the Beast!
The daughter was also surprisingly trained. she had a knife that she used against the wild animal. In this story we don't have the grandmother point of view. We don't know if she was helpless against her bestial desires. In reference to the title, her bed room Became the bloody chamber.

In "Puss in boots" what I notice is that the girl is said beautiful and treated like an object. The master before was a "player" but changed into "a man of love". We can see that as a metamorphosis and could be compared to the beast in "The courtship of Mr. Lyon" wishing his master would turn back into a lion. the story keeps a comic tone that I like and it ends well more than any other tale in Carter's rewriting.

"The lady in the house.... reminds me of Bram Stocker's original story of "Dracula" except that the heroine is a girl. For those who read the story, The young soldier would be Johnattan Harker who was sent to Count Dracula's castle. To stay in Carter's novel, the countess reminds of the Marquis in "The bloody Chamber" In this case the heroine is the monster. Carter in this tale reverses the gender roles. The heroine is the one with all the power. I notice that Cater doesn't forget the title of the book. Once more we have a reference to the title. The countess kills the young men in her bedroom. Here unlike the other stories, she is the one longing to become human. Like in "the courtship of Mr. Lyon" "Beauty and the Beast" and "The tiger's Bride", the countess and the soldier inhabit two different world. She lives in a world of magic and murder while the young soldier lives in a rational world with human in it. Cater also subtly made a reference to the horrors of war. She puts in parallel a story of vampire where the violence comes from the "beast" within every person. The Bloody or vicious aspect where the countess kills without mercy represents war.