The Third Book: the Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure
After his disappearance, Gerda wonders if Kay is alive and leaves home to search for her friend. She meets a witch and asks the witch’s flowers for help in her quest. The flowers each sang their own story…
“There was such a sweet scent, and the girls went off into the forest: the scent grew stronger — three coffins, in which the lovely girls lay down…Are the dancing girls asleep, or are they dead?”
…,though intriguing, none of which was related to Kay.
“We do not toll for Kay, him we do not know! we are just singing our song, the only one we know!”
The flowers and their stories are often seen as Andersen’s portrayal of self-involvement — something that Gerda had to forsake and abandon in order to continue on her journey to find her loved friend. The scene he paints has also often been construed to be an intentional mockery of the thoughts and writings of intellectuals that bored Andersen to pieces.
“‘I don’t care about that!’ Gerda said. ‘That’s nothing to tell me about!’”
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