Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples

In this passage from Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples winter is symbolically the princess —a figure of death. Gaimen uses the imagery of winter’s brutal reality (death) to describe the princess as a killer. The uses of this imagery will set up the hidden message of “mid winter feast”. At first it seems ironic that it is previously mentioned that winter is the time of hunger yet there is a mid winter feast of a whole pig stuffed with autumn’s apples until the message that winter is the symbol for the princess registers. We then realize mid winters feast is actually a foreshadowing death of the Queen. Gaimen uses three distinct hints to bring his message to light, first he uses the term goose fat as what is rubbed on the pig before being