Cinderella is a story about a young girl who finds herself in terrible circumstances. When the girl's mother died, her father remarried. On his second wife, the girl's father married a woman who not only ordered and controlled him, but also treated Cinderella horribly. When the prince threw a ball to which Cinderella was forbidden to attend, Cinderella's fairy godmother appeared and set to work to send Cinderella to the ball.