Editing Silent Snow, Secret Snow (section)

==Interpretations==
The story tells of a normal boy's descent into a dream world of snow that he finds preferable to the dirty and mundane world.<ref>D. L. Lavery, "The Delicious Progress": Whiteness as an Atavism in Conrad Aiken's "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," ''[[Psychoanalytic Review]]'' 70, no. 2 (1983): 235-39.</ref> The story can also be thought of as a [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolist]] rejection of reality.<ref>Ballew Graham, "''Silent Snow, Secret Snow'': The Short Story as Poem", ''[[The English Journal]]'' 57, no. 5 (May 1968): 693.</ref> The progressive withdrawal from reality and social relationships, as well as preoccupation with idiosyncratically meaningful ideas could be interpreted as characteristic of schizophrenia.