Compare and Contrast the Use of Snow in “The Dead” and “Snow Country”

Snow Country is probably the masterpiece of one of the Japan's most respected authors, Yasunari Kawabata. It is the story of a love affair between Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante and Komako, a hot spring geisha. Kawabata can very rightly be called the master of imagery. Throughout the novel he employs beautiful descriptions, especially when he describes the pure white landscape that forms the backdrop to the love affair. In James Joyce's, The Dead, the use of snow imagery is less yet it leaves a profound and lasting effect in the end. Both the authors use the snow imagery to describe vividly the settings and to serve as a 'memory' of the characters' wasted efforts and lost loves.
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Compare and Contrast the Use of Snow in “The Dead” and “Snow Country”
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