The original Snow White focused on the  relationship between Snow white and her Step Mother and how she wanted Snow White to die because she was more beautiful than her. The Adult Desire here is an attraction to things that are beautiful and deceptive. The most well known scene of the story portrays this, which is when Snow white receives the poison apple. “‘Snow-White longed for the beautiful apple, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating part of it, she could no longer resist, and she stuck her hand out and took the poisoned apple”. In the original story, Snow White gets deceived 3 times by the step mother, the first time with a beautiful dress, the second time with a beautiful comb, and the third time by a beautiful apple. In all instances, the author uses the word beautiful to describe the objects, and it is purposely there. This is to emphasize the deception of beauty. Because this is a the third time that it happens to her, you would think that Snow White would know that it is another deception, and she does. Before this scene, Snow White tells the woman ” I am not allowed to let anyone in. The dwarfs have forbidden me to do so”. Also in the first quote, we see that Snow White not being able to “resist” anymore. Snow White responded this way because she already knew the apple was  a deception, but she eats it anyways, and it is because she finds the apple beautiful. Through these examples, the author identifies our own natural desires as humans to desire the beautiful, yet deceptive.

Work Cited: Grimm, Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm. “Little Snow-White.” Grimm 015. University of Pittsburgh, 7 Sept. 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2015. <http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm015.html>.