The Bloody Chambers

These different versions of Beauty and the Beast from the book The Bloody Chambers sort of makes you feel uncomfortable reading them because you are so used to the original story that reading something different just doesn't feel right. The story "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon was a bit modernized because he actually used a car to get to where he needed to go. The last part of that story was very confusing as well where it said "And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur." It makes you ask yourself, did she turn into a tiger?....