Reception
Since her first appearance in 1937, Disney's Snow White character has elicited a range of reactions from film critics. Writing in 1937, John C. Flinn Sr. of Variety, described Snow White as "the embodiment of girlish sweetness and kindness". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote in 2001, "Snow White is, truth to tell, a bit of a bore, not a character who acts but one whose mere existence inspires others to act," and went on to say that "Disney's inspiration was not in creating Snow White but in creating her world." Sandie Angulo Chen of Common Sense Media wrote in 2005, "As is to be expected in a film made in 1937, Snow White is a passive damsel in distress who needs to be rescued by her true love... Although Snow White may not be as brave as Mulan, as intelligent as Belle, or as talented as Ariel, she is, like Cinderella after her, the sweetest among the Disney Princesses." Desson Thomson of The Washington Post joked, "Snow White may be pure, but she has no real estate, is compulsive about house-cleaning and talks to animals". TV Guide's review describes the character as "the most surreal" of the Disney Princesses, noting that "never again would Walt's heroine have such a fantasy singing voice, and for that reason, she's the favorite heroine of many animation auteurs."
Snow White is one of the few fictional characters with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
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