Angela Carter's “The Company of Wolves” is a feminist and macabre retelling of the fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” The story features a werewolf, who represents a sexual predator. The werewolf is used as a symbol of both danger and desire. It is also about a young girl who is not a victim of the fear of the wolf that surrounds her. She embraces her new sexual power and serves as a symbol of sexual desire/power and feminine strength. The first part of the story tells folk tales about the wolf and the werewolf. Here wolves are used as a symbol of fear. He overwhelms the reader with terrifying descriptions of the wolf and shows the reader that the wolf is clearly something that scares the people in the story. They are described as "murderers of the forest, gray members of a nightmare congregation" and are known to be worse than "all the teeming perils of night and forest, the ghosts, the hobgoblins, the broiling ogres babies on grills, witches.” These monsters are not real and the fear of these non-existent monsters is ridiculous because they are fictitious. The fear for...