“No human relationship is friction-free.” The poem “puce fairy book” by Alice Major discusses the unfair stereotypes of a perfect fairytale woman. Similarly in the passage “Forget Prince Charming” by June Callwood a grandmother offers realistic advice to her granddaughters on the imperfection of relationships. Alice Major would agree with the honesty and realism of the grandmother’s advice.

A happily ever after is not filled with practicality. Alice Major expresses her doubt in perfect fairytale like relationships in the poem “puce fairy book.” She does not implore the thought of “Rapunzel waiting in a tower”. No woman has hair with such length or a mind with such patience. Bringing a woman a crystal slipper is “slightly passé.” The situation could result in injured egos, as a foot is tried to squeeze into a shoe, much too quaint for such a large foot. One can never confidently retain such information as a shoe size. She understands that a man expects and yearns for a “lady sleeping a garden… never been kissed” but the assumption is historic. Alice Major is equitable in deeming fairytales to be conceited and immature.

The “perfect mate [does not] exist”. June Callwood depicts the story of a grandmother prompting her granddaughters to not believe in the “freak of nature” that is a fairy tale relationship. In the poem "Forget Prince Charming" it made clear that partners are not always on the same page. The speaker advises her grandchildren  on how to find the right man to share their love and their lives with. She concludes that all relationships have their problems but it is only the sturdy relationships filled with compromise and some laughs that last an eternity. The grandmother is totally justified in her opinion on the daily battles of a committed relationship. 

Alice Major the speaker of “puce fairy book” would agree, generally speaking, with the grandmother in “Forget Prince Charming” and her admonition to her grandchildren in finding a suitable mate. The grandmother had been “saying since they were small ..that a successful mating has little to do with finding prince charming.” Alike to the grandmother’s statement Alice with “mature consideration [declines]… the honor of cutting of [her] toe” because she is aware that no prince charming is worth struggling to fit into a crystal slipper. Both Alice and the grandmother agree that the “totality [of a relationship] has to feel fair to both.” The couple would be unable to survive a long term relation without the “mutual ability to compromise.” Both speakers are justified are in their educated beliefs of being shamelessly cheated by men daily.