How does Angela Carter use the fairy-tale genre in her short story The Bloody Chamber? (Genre-based A Level question that students often struggle with)

Angela Carter subverts characters from an easily-recognisable genre: the damsel in distress and the Prince Charming. While at first these characters conform into these archetypes (a conventional stock character such as 'the virgin'), her story reveals the gendered dynamics behind the genre that has been so easily accepted into Western culture, in how the male possession of the damsel in distress is dangerous and violent.For example, note the immediate differences to a fairy tale: female first-person narrator (I said, I think), meaning we get an insight into the feminine point of view rather than an omniscient narrator (literally a narrator that sees all, written in the third-person - he said/she thought); and by merging the fairy tale genre with the horror genre (blood and sadism), Carter imbues the fairy tale with an element of danger.Close analysis: One way in which she subverts the fairy-tale is through vision and the male gaze, as seeing through his "assessing eye", "limb by limb", becomes an act of violence in itself as she becomes a "display of flesh". The narrator sees herself as this object too, as "I had first seen my flesh in his eyes… I was aghast to feel myself stirring" -- a perspective we do not get in the fairy tale. This re-works the fairy tale because it perverts the cliche of the romantic loving gaze of the male lover as a non-realistic and sexualised view of the female.