Passé – Adjective
Definition: no longer fashionable or popular
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pass%C3%A9
Found in: There Was Once by Margaret Atwood
Quote: “Forest? Forest is passé, I mean, I’ve had it with all this wilderness stuff. It’s not a right image of our society, today. Let’s have some urban for a change.” (1st page, 3rd line)
Throughout this short story, the narrator tries to breakdown the stereotypical fairytale of Cinderella. Back then maybe this might have been the case where the typical Cinderella story might have taken place in a forest but in today’s society people in poverty are known to be in urban areas. This is a way of the narrator’s attempts to demolish how stereotypical we can be.
