THE STORY: In the author’s own words: “Surprising things happen: Gretel, wife and Big Mother, tries to force her son Buster to eat his corn flakes by chasing him with a bullwhip; she gets angry at her infant daughter Sweetums and wrestles with her in her oversized playpen; she tries to remove her husband from the scene by sucking him into a vacuum cleaner; when that fails she tries to electrocute him with the family toaster; he survives, and when he later spurns her affections, she castrates him. However, nature restores him to his former state, and all ends happily."
