The reading
The bead. A girl reduced to a servant in her own home is recognized for the grace she never lost, and raised to the very top of the market that cast her out.
Engines
- repricing · content · spine · ~ — the cupel market-baseline case in its folk-purest form: discounted to cinders and servitude, her reserve currency is the grace and virtue that never changed, and the prize is the prince — the top of the market. The glass slipper is the receipt delivered: her worth made legible to all, the stepfamily's discount publicly overturned.
- being-desired · content · also-runs · ~ — chosen at the ball, wanted as she truly is beneath the ash and rags.
- abundance · content · also-runs · ~ — gown, carriage, ball: scarcity turned to luxury, though pointedly transient (midnight), so the worth, not the finery, is what carries.
The bundle. A repricing spine with the romance and luxury riders — the discounted self revalued, chosen, and raised, the slipper proving the price was always wrong.
Dual-use read. Repricing's counterfeit is the grievance-revaluation pitch (the world owes you recognition); Cinderella sits on the enabling side — the worth was genuinely there all along, merely unseen, and is confirmed by a test, not asserted.
Verdict. The folk ur-text of repricing — the market-baseline element made a fairy tale: the discounted self revalued and raised to the top, virtue as the currency that holds.
Evidence. ~ reviewed — public-domain (Perrault 1697 / Grimm); a ✓-validation candidate from the PD text. Repricing's slot-proven home: Pride and Prejudice.