"At its most basic, Fifty Shades of Grey—like Twilight, and like so many bestsellers that have come before—appealed
not just to suburban housewives, but to the little girls they had once
been. The story is less a booster for bondage (such as Pauline Réage’s
legendary erotica, Story of O) than a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. At
the end of her saga, when all the whips have been sheathed and the
harnesses have been unstrung, Anastasia Steele has tamed and wedded her
beast, given birth to one of his children, and conceived another. In its
final lines, the narrative appears less a celebration of sexual
transgression than of the nuclear family".
