Silent Snow, Secret Snow | Silent Snow, Secret Snow: Style as Art
In the following excerpt, Tebeaux explores Aiken’s
development of the narrative and the use of
poetical devices in ‘‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow.’’
‘‘ Silent Snow, Secret Snow,’’ one of Aiken’s most famous, most anthologized short stories, has received sparse critical discussion. Most likely because of Aiken’s admitted indebtedness to Freud, the core of existing criticism attempts to define Paul’s problem in terms of Freudian psychology. Recent criticism gives a general overview of Aiken’s short fiction and attempts to place Paul among Aiken’s other protagonists, his ‘‘lost people’’ who fail to accept the real world. I would like to suggest, however, that the powerful, intriguing effect of the story...
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