Main Characters:
Cupid-tall, blonde, and handsome (a god) sometimes nice sometimes not
Psyche-really beautiful (human) sweet and naive
Aphrodite-beautiful (goddess) vain and evil
Setting:
Cupid's house-luxurious gold, silver, and ivory palace, with exquisitely maintained gardens, crystal-clear fountains. Not to mention the twenty-four hour gourmet kitchen and invisible servants.
Main Plot:
Aphrodite is jealous that everyone thinks that Psyche is more beautiful or equally as beautiful as her. So Aphrodite tells her son Cupid to get Psyche to fall in love with a grubby red neck, so that she will be frowned upon rather than praised for her beauty.
Main Conflict:
When cupid goes to shoot Psyche with one of his arrows he gets stunned by her beauty and ends up accidentally poking himself with one of his own arrows. He then immediately falls in love with Psyche, but he flies away because he knows his mother wouldn't like that.
Attempts to Explain:
This myth attempts to explain the human flaw of of jealousy and being vain.
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