First of all, a remarkable difference is that White Riding Hood is not as naïve or submissive as Red Riding Hood, as we see in her actions during the story. For instance, when she sees the she wolf she tries to defend it from the hunters. Moreover, when she lets her grandmother kill the hunter and when she helps her to feed the wolves with the rests of the dead hunter without telling her mother, she shows independent thinking and bravery.

Secondly, another difference is the fact that white riding hood’s grandmother is a witch and helps animals from the forest (birds, wolves and others) and that the wolf is not bad, contrarily to the traditional story where the wolf tries to eat Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.

Furthermore, another important difference is that in the traditional story the hunter is good, he is the one that saves White Riding Hood and her grandmother from the wolf, while in the feminist version of the story the hunters are bad, they try to rape White Riding Hood and also try to kill her and her grandmother.

Finally, one of the differences is that in the feminist version the heroine is white (White Riding Hood), representing virginity and the purity, whereas the mother is red (Red Riding Hood), representing a mature woman ready to have children (a woman after her first menstruation).

To conclude, Barbara G. Walker’s story changes the roles of the characters making it a feminist version as she shows to the readers man’s destruction of wilderness and nature. In addition, she represents this wilderness with the wolf while in the traditional version man represents the good and the wolves represent the bad.