The Snow Child

I really admired Angela Carter's ability to incorporate rather grotesque subjects into her writing as subtly as she does. The rape scene in The Snow Child caught my attention the most. When I first read over it, I had to back track. In my mind I was thinking: "He didn't just seriously rape a dead body did he???..." Reading over it a second time, I was pretty positive that's what had happened. However, I immensely admire writer's who can put disturbing subjects in their writing, yet can execute it so subtly that the reader's may not even catch it at first. I feel I become more immersed in the work itself this way because I'm not busy cringing at gruesome details. Angela Carter writes with such elegance, even when it involves the raping of a dead body.