Silent Snow, Secret Snow | Interpretations of Paul's Mental Disturbance
In the following essay,
the author surveys the various critical interpretations of
Paul’s mental disturbance in Aiken’s ‘‘Silent Snow,
Secret Snow.’’
Critics do not interpret Conrad Aiken’s short story ‘‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’’ (1934) in a literal way. Upon initial examination, they consistently regard the story as something other than what it is. Thomas L. Erskine, for example, in his 1972 psychoanalytical interpretation of the story, claims that ‘‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’’ is about the ‘‘balance’’ between ‘‘two worlds’’ and the ‘‘discovery’’ that results by leaving one to enter the other. For Snow covered spruce tree. Erskine, each of young Paul Hasleman’s deformed or defamiliarized...
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