This story needs all that it can get in order to compensate for an interpretation so superficial that it makes
the formulaic story concept itself seems superficial, which shouldn't be the case, seeing as how Audie Murphy's story is a harrowing one that many soldiers can relative to, and everyone else can respect as sweeping and tense.
Even if fairies
stories tend to be
formulaic - fairy is happy, fairy gets in trouble, fairy gets out of trouble and learns a lesson - this one introduces the bold - ish
concept of the sisters» bond rather than the usual marriage plot.