From AJ!

I was looking over some of my quotes; I came upon "where the prince gets lost" (130). It was at that point when I realized I actually had no idea what it was referencing. I searched the internet and I'm pretty sure it is the story "The Grateful Prince." What I really found interesting was that here also there were signs of subtle female dominance. Let me first give a rather short synopsis. A king gets lost in the woods; a creepy, old man helps him out; (skipping over another motif) now, the king owes him his son; he instead gives the old man a peasants daughter, having his real son be fostered in secret with the peasant family; he grows up, learns the truth, and out of guilt tries to seek out the girl; he find the old man in the forest with a maid, presumably the daughter given away; he does tasks for the old man and eventually escapes with the maid; when he arrives home, he find that his real father, the king, has died; the entire town decides that the two should be married and take rule of the kingdom.
Pretty run of the mill stuff. However, males, who are assumed to be dominant, aren't dominant here; the king in the forest has no governance over his direction nor the old man and is thus put into substantial debt with the old man. Also, this secret prince, under the shroud of subordinance, is originally exchanged without question with a girl, equating the two. In doing said tasks, the prince is guided through the old man's tricks by the girl, the same that was traded as a commodity. This creates this later of power, wildly straying from what would be considered the "norm"
When you then apply this to Rebecca, things get even funkier. Who the old man is is still up for debate.

I now realize that I could hasn't just connected things that weren't really connected in the first place, if that makes sense; however, it seems like too much of a coincidence to be untrue. I'm still accounting for my "goggles," but I think I can sleep fine now.