The Snow Child

This story shocked me. At the beginning, I was convinced that it was the story of Snow White and would continue according to the basis of that story. Then it suddenly went a completely different direction than the well-known story. The plot is very much like a fairy tale until the Count rapes the girl's corpse, and then it returns to its fanciful language and symbols. The story is full of symbols like the girl representing a man's idea of the perfect female. Its deviation from the story it is similar to is strange and makes you try to figure out why Carter wrote it that way.