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I chose Charles Perrault's  LRRH as my first read.
In it, which this wolf is interpreted as a man who takes advantage of a innocent young girl, tells a story in which the wolf deceives LLRH as well as the grandmother to get what he wants. Sex.
After the story had ended unhappily, I found it odd that the innocent girl didn't have the brains to think for herself. Ex. "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed with me." Afterwards she undresses and lays with the wolf.  At this time and era we live in, people can easily see the signs of being manipulated by sex. But in it itself, and very rarely, people so innocent such as LRRH can overlook the simple straight forward 'i want sex' that men uses on women.  For one example - love (It can blind even the most smartest person) depicted in some Hollywood movies. I think that it's understandable to be manipulated once in a while (How devious the plan is or how complex and how far men would go just for sex) but as asking for a simple straight forward of 'where do you live?' and 'take this long path/Don't go that way.' is telling readers that no matter what a man would say or how stupid it might be, there is just one person innocent enough to fall for that scheme. (Trying to make this a open debate for more points in participation!)

Some internal conflicts I saw in LLRH in Perrault's version, which i found obvious, is that when LRRH asked the wolf countless questions...
"All the better to hug you with, my dear."
"Grandmother, what big legs you have!"
"All the better to run with, my child."
"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"
"All the better to hear with, my child."
"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"
"All the better to see with, my child."
"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"
"All the better to eat you up with."
Having multiple doubts from LLRH, the wolf sickeningly lies to LLRH.
To me this shows that LRRH is asking herself the questions in her mind but wasn't sure enough to came to a right conclusion. This ties with the Innocents of LLRH in the first paragraph because these casual questions are the same lies men would tell young girls for sex regardless of how stupid the answers may be. I think it's silly how easily women can be manipulated depicted in LRRH and how other countries still use women as sex slave.

An external conflict that i saw, or maybe a minor one, is that when the wolf had an internal conflict 'As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was going.'
He was keen enough to see the problem he would go through if he had 'eaten' (Or rape) the girl. The conflict was the woodcutter vs the wolf knowing that the wolf would never stand a chance against a wood cutter (A more gentleman that will assist the helpless)