The Snow Goose was originally published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in the 9 November 1940 edition. A year later, it was released as a novella and won honorable mention in the O. Henry Memorial Prize competition. Through The Fire Sebastian Telfair Download there. The story centers on the reclusive, lonely, deformed painter Philip Rhayader, living in a lighthouse in the remote marshes of the Essex coast.

One day, a young girl, Frith, the child of fishing people, brings him a snow goose that had been shot. Although she didn’t know Rhayader, she, like everyone else, was afraid of him because of his looks. Nevertheless, she overcomes her fear because Rhayader also has a reputation for loving all nature, and has created a sanctuary for birds flying south to live in until the spring comes and they head north again. Rhayader asks Frith to help him bandage the snow goose, and while they work, he tells her that it is a Canadian goose, making up a story about how it had lost its way in a storm and ended up off the coast of England. That winter, Frith comes regularly to visit the goose and Rhayader, but in the spring when it flies north, she stops visiting. Without them, Rhayader begins to feel his intense loneliness again and paints a picture of Frith as she looked the day she brought the snow goose to him.

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But each winter the snow goose returns and so does Frith. This goes on for several years, until one year neither of them returns. When the snow goose finally comes back to Rhayader’s sanctuary, it is more than a month before Frith visits, and when she does, Rhayader realizes she is no longer a girl. He also knows that the snow goose is not going to leave him and fly north again in spring. The next spring, 1940, all the other birds migrate north earlier than usual because of the war, but, just as Rhayader had said, the snow goose remains behind. As she and Rhayader watch the birds flying away, Frith suddenly feels frightened: “and the things that frightened her were in Rhayader’s eyes – the longing and the loneliness and the deep, welling, unspoken things that lay in and behind them as he turned them upon her.” (pg 26) Frith leaves and stays away for three weeks, but curious to see if the snow goose did indeed remain, Frith again overcomes her fear and visits Rhayader.

She finds him busy packing his little sailboat. He explains to her that he is going to Dunkirk, to help rescue the soldiers stranded there. As he sails away, the snow goose follows him and this is where the legend of the snow goose begins. This is also the part of the book where I always start crying, even as I write this. The story is written in the style of legends or fairy tales, giving it that surreal quality that these types of stories often have (well, when they aren’t a Disney production.) The dialogue, what little there is, is written in dialect and may be difficult for young readers. In many ways, it is a classic beauty and the beast story, but without the characteristic kind of happy ending they always have. The Snow Goose is an extremely sentimental; but also a very appealing story.