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Snow White

Snow White Literary Elements Genre: Allegory, postmodern literature Setting and Context: Modern times in a cramped inner city apartment Narrator and Point of View: Third person omniscient primarily focused on the point of view of Snow White herself. Tone and Mood: Ironic, darkly humorous and critical Protagonist and Antagonist: Snow White; Jane Major Conflict: Snow White wants to marry Paul, because she believes she will feel better about herself. Jane's lover likes Snow White though, and no one is getting what they want. Climax: Jane attempts to poison Snow White but accidentally kills Paul. Foreshadowing: The poisonous pie includes foreshadowing because of the common understanding of the Snow White story, but the expectation is inverted. Also, Bill's condemnation and death are foreshadowed in the conversations of the dwarves Allusions: The entire story is an allusion to the Snow White narrative that is so well known in the Western world. Imagery: The poisoned Gibson. apartment.

The vats of mushy baby food and the cramped city

Paradox: The paradoxical romance of the story is an inversion of the common story of Snow White. The reader's expectation that Snow White will end up with Paul is paradoxically inverted because someone else feels the same way toward Snow White that she feels toward Paul, and they circumvent each other.

Literary Criticism Formalist Criticism This story is a postmodern inversion of the traditional tale, perhaps best known from its 1930's film adaptation by Disney. But in Barthelme's fairy tale, Snow White is in modern times. Snow White lives with seven frumpy men who each left the national parks to come to the city where they prepare Chinese baby food in vats. Snow White has a crush on Paul, whose name starts with a 'P' because he corresponds to Prince Charming. There is also a step mother figure named Jane. The center of the story involves the death of Paul after he accidentally ingests poison that Jane intended for Snow White. Snow White mourns the loss of a relationship whose very credibility is questionable, with a man she never really even knew. The dwarves turn on each other for not correctly pursuing their meaningless and arbitrary tasks. The story is a perfect example of what postmodernism intends to do, which is to expose the underlying assumptions made by artists and audiences who expect stories to read a certain way or to contain some sort of morally verifying meaning. Barthelme says no. Life may not seem meaningless, but that's because we believe our arbitrary desires, but from an alternative perspective, it's obvious to him how meaningless it all actually is.

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