Motivation for Telling a Story

In "The Storyteller", what is the aunt's motivation for telling the children a story? What is the bachelor's motivation? How are their motivations similar? How are they different? How does the aunt react at the end of the bachelor's story?

• The aunt's motivation to tell her story is because she wants to quiet the children down, and she also wants to teach the children to be proper and behaved good children. The bachelor also wants to quiet the children down, but on the other hand, he also wants to give the aunt a hard time by telling the children an improper story so they would ask and annoy the aunt for improper stories for a long time. The content of the two stories told by the adults teaches the children different things. The aunt's story intended to teach the children that being good is a good thing because you will be rewarded. The bachelor's story, however, is trying to convey the idea that sometimes when you are too good and too nice, people will take advantage of you. After the aunt hears the story, she reacts in a very emotional way. She is very upset that the bachelor told the children such an improper story. She thinks that the story has made the children think in an improper way, and because of the improper story, she is going to have to deal with these troublesome children for about the next six months or so.