Most of the moral stories which we read often had a very definite moral - Do this or don't do this. Don't be greedy, don't lie, work hard etc etc. However, the story of the fox and the grapes has no such definite moral. The fox tried and tried to get hold of the grapes and when he did not, he said the grapes are sour and left. I often wondered, what did the author want to say? Was the fox right in his action? Growing up, I was very sure the fox was a failure , a "sore loser" - and that is not what we should be. But as life unfolds, we often see things with a different perspective. This story recently came back to me and I started to think, well why was the fox wrong? The story did say he tried a lot. Given that the story is about a fox which is generally considered a clever animal, I started to see another side to this story. May be the fox was indeed clever at giving up and making peace with it by blaming it on the grapes. May be this story needed some unfo