The only beautiful and perfect things to him now are the tiny snowflakes that he sees through a magnifying glass. He destroys their window-box garden, he makes fun of his grandmother, and he no longer cares about Gerda, since everyone now appears bad and ugly to him. On a pleasant summer day, splinters of the troll-mirror get into Kai's heart and eyes. Kai draws back in fear from the window.īy the following spring, Gerda has learned a song that she sings to Kai: Roses flower in the vale there we hear Child Jesus' tale! Because roses adorn the window box garden, the sight of roses always reminds Gerda of her love for Kai. Looking out of his frosted window one winter, Kai sees the Snow Queen, who beckons him to come with her. As bees have a queen, so do the snow bees, and she is seen where the snowflakes cluster the most. Kai's grandmother tells the children about the Snow Queen, who is ruler over the "snow bees" - snowflakes that look like bees. Gerda and Kai have a window box garden to play in, and they become devoted to each other as playmates, and as close as if they were siblings.
The two families grow vegetables and roses in window boxes placed on the gutters. They could get from one's home to the other's just by stepping over the gutters of each building. Years later, a little boy Kai and a little girl Gerda live next door to each other in the garrets of buildings with adjoining roofs in a large city.
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