Snow Drop Tanith Lee Analysis

The Wilting of The Mind: Tanith Lee’s Snow Drop In Lee’s “Snow Drop” the reader is emerged into a visual imageries of different colors recurrently to play off the protagonist’s mood and emotions. In the beginning imagery of blue was used to describe the main character, Cristena. The color blue has a calming effect on the mind and on the body. Lee uses the imagery of the blues to show us that the character is an intelligent, stable and loving person. We soon learn our character has been left alone in a technology equipped house, and is constantly alone, due to the absence of her working husband. Thus far it would seem less than ideal arrangement, Cristena remains hopeful and is completely adequate with being a house wife. She remains hopeful to have romantic days with her husband when he would arrive back home. Then with all the hope Cristena had hope for, we see discredited with a one work paragraph, “However.” …show more content…
Lee describes the paintings - rather bleak descriptions of snow and coldness. Hence, the protagonist found the photo begging to disturb her state of mind – she replaces the paintings with colorful vivid images. Upon the husband’s arrival, he is uninterested, but he does bring the wife home a beautiful sapphire ring – it did not fit. The beauty of the ring and its color choice is how Lee shows the irony of the situation. The blue ring does not fit, showing the characteristics of calming and beneficial blue, does not fit in this marriage. Due to lack of emotional attachment that Lee’s characters often face, the paintings are put back onto the walls. Lee’s playful twist of the story of “Snow White” introduces the young girl from paintings, the child the first wife could never have. Hence, the images started to make the protagonist feel troubled as she used the word “horrid’’ to describe what they had