The Snow Child Reflection

When first starting the reading of "The Snow Child", I hadn't realized its connection to the famous fairytale, "Snow White". After getting through the story and realizing what had happened, I realized that the child really closely resembled Snow White, with her black hair, white skin, and red lips. But instead of being poisoned and being awoken by her true love, she was killed by the prick of a rose thorn, and then raped. It is interesting how the little connection makes it easy to compare and contrast the two stories, even though they are completely different. The Countess seems to be like the evil queen in snow white, jealous that her husband thinks that the child is so beautiful. She also plots for the child to be left behind and forgotten, but nothing seems to work because of the Count's love for the child's beauty.