By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’, which was originally published in the British version of Vogue magazine, is a 1979 short story by Angela Carter (1940-92). The story was later collected in Carter’s 1979 book The Bloody Chamber . Like most of the stories in The Bloody Chamber , ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’ took its inspiration from classic fairy tales. In this case, Carter’s story is a reworking of the ‘ Beauty and the Beast ’ tale. But precisely how we should approach, and analyse, Carter’s take on this well-known story requires a closer look at the text. ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’: plot summary Beauty waits at home one night for her father to return, but his car has broken down far from home. He comes to a house and, overcome with cold on a snowy night, he makes his way past the gates and into the strange house. Inside, he finds food and drink and telephones for assistance from the garage, although he is unable to call his daughter at home where she waits for him. When the host of the house arrives, he introduces himself as the Beast. Beast is – there’s no other way to put this – a lion. The father had taken a white rose from the Beast’s house, as a present for his daughter, and Beast accuses the father of thieving from him, and demands that the man bring his beautiful daughter to dinner at his home. Although Beauty is apprehensive in Beast’s company at first, he soon puts her at her ease by asking her about her dead mother and how her father, who had once been so rich, had ended up so poor. She even becomes happy during her time staying with him. When her father telephones her to come home, Beauty tells the Beast she will have to leave him. He is so upset by this news that he begs her to return to him, and she tells him she will. The Beast helps her father to recover his fortune, and she soon […]
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