The Snow Child reponse

The snow child happened to be really confusing for me and its clear that it could be interpreted in many different ways. I think whaen angela carter wrote this short story she allowed for such anaylisis based on the fact that the topic of this short story is so questionable. It deals with possible incest which is such a sensitive subject to adress in a short story especially when the general trend is a really messed up, gothic, pornographic fairy tale. It just seems so outrageous. This is almost a dream like story in which the count dreams up a girl and she appears, then throughout the story the countess tries to kill her, in the end its like something seemingly harmless did the job for the countess.

During the class disscussion many things that i haden't personally thought about arose and i found them really interesting the fact that maybe the girl was a symbol of evil and the countess was the victim, in this case i could possibly understand the story more.

Another way that I thought about it was that maybe it was like a previous memory. Because the part before the story tells about it being the coountesses dead daughter. The count obviously found the girl much more beautiful then his wife. Maybe it wasn't his daughter, just the countesses. The count expressed an interest in the countesses daughter so she killed her.

I dont know the whole thing is really messed up for me but i liked the story anyhow.