The Second Book: a Little Boy and a Little Girl
Kay and Gerda, children as close as brother and sister, were told the story of the Snow Queen, who makes a brief appearance to Kay.
“She was very fine and beautiful, but made of ice, of blinding, twinkling ice, and yet she was alive; her eyes stared like two bright stars, although there was no calmness or rest in them.”
Kay is later struck by one of the broken fragments of the mirror, gaining seemingly heightened intelligence (at the cost of his heart freezing) that resulted in his disengagement from stories (that his grandmother tells him) and relationships. He is then taken away by the Snow Queen.
Andersen stylizes the story metaphorically to suggest that the abandonment or disregard of stories and love is congruent to spiritual death — a death that often goes unnoticed.
“…it was as if he was going to die; — but only for a moment, then it felt fine; he could no longer notice the cold around him."
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