After all talk of overlap of interpretations, there remaing many things in the story that just are, and which seem to have some meaning, but I do not have a good walk of talking about.
That includes "Mozart", for example. I mean the figure playing the harpsichord or piano see across the Goblin stream as Ida returns with the baby. My mind wants to weave that into an interpretation that has meaning, but at the moment it just sits there, a delicious anomaly, pointing the way to yet another little reality that we barely get to glimpse.
And there are other things I notice, that I want to do something with. The hats that are on the ground when mama is in the arbor. One is presumably hers. The other is one we will see later on the changeling, so can we infer it was worn by the baby and the goblins took notice? Perhaps.
Then there is the one that overwhelms me which is Ida putting on her mother's raincoat. It makes her look a mature woman. She does become her mother to save the child. There is that level, I see. This is about the learning of the maternal instinct of love, from a mother to a daughter. That may be the best quantum interpretation-level yet, or at least my favorite.
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I noticed the hats too. The yellow baby hat stays with the melted thing, but is magically back in the arbor at the end. The yellow hat doesn't go to goblin land, but the yellow raincoat does. Hmm. And what's with the pink umbrella on the backward out her window page? And the yellow hat is like the encroaching sunflowers at Idas window. And the other window with seascape mirroring what might be the inner workings of Idas emotions and decisions. Yes the horn which you mentioned already is of biblical proportion, or at least that could be one interpretation. There is a lot of water and rocks in this story.
Very interesting. Thank you for these interesting comments. I must go check out these things, especially the water and rocks. That hats remain a fascination for me.
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