Eroticism, comfort, hard work, and the heart's deep love are all bound in rose imagery, from the curtains and tapestries of the Beast's palace to the Rose Cottage home of Beauty's family. The Beast's aroma is also of roses, as is the scent of a sorcerer and a greenwitch. Beauty can make anything grow, especially roses her memories of her dead mother are always accompanied by her mother's elusive rose scent. While sticking to the tale's traditional outlines, this version by turns rushes headlong and slows to a stately pace, is full of asides and surprises, and is suffused with obsession for the rose and thorn as flora, metaphor, and symbol. This luxuriant retelling of the story of the Beauty and the Beast is very different from McKinley's own Beauty (1978).
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