Unusually for Plath’s work, the third-person speaker is invisible; the focus is instead put on the girl within the poem’s story, who may be a projection of the speaker themselves — particularly if the scene is taking place within the speaker’s mind, rather than a true external locale. They can be read as either a literal interpretation of the Cinderella fairy tale, or someone who feels they are living a “Cinderella”-type experience and is using the story as a point of reference to understand their own feelings. Within the poem, they are living in a romantic dream world filled with light and color; towards the end, they suddenly realize that their dream is precarious and in danger of being taken away from them.