[from Mideya]

When i read Angela Carter's story The Snow Child from her book The Bloody Chamber, it really creeped me out. It was a very short story that really had no substance except for a man stating his dream child and then her appearing. What is the story trying to tell the audience? Why was the countess so jealous of a child? I mean, its not like her husband was wishing for the perfect woman he was merely stating what he wished his child to look like. So, why did the wife feel so threatened?? She was even threatened enough to try and kill the poor girl. And when she finally succeeds in killing the girl was their really a point for the man to rape her?? No, their wasn't it was just weird. By far one of the srangest stories i think i have ever read.