Silent Snow, Secret Snow | Critical Overview
Given the interest in the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud in the 1930s, it is not surprising that early interpretations of ‘‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’’ examined the story from that perspective. Leo Hamalaian provided an early example of psychoanalytic analysis in his ‘‘Aiken’s ‘‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’’’ of 1948. Frederick Hoffman’s 1957 study of Freudianism and the Literary Mind, which devotes considerable space to Aiken’s fiction, is another case in point, although it should be added that Hoffman later de-emphasized the Freudian aspect of his...
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