bloody chamber talk

The four stories I read were The Bloody Chamber, The Courtship of Mr Lyon, The Snow Child, and The Werewolf.  I'm not an English major, so I'm not great at picking out a lot of subtle elements in books or poems, and hearing discussions about those things is what makes classes like this interesting for me.  I'm sure I missed a lot in all four stories, but I was definitely a little confused about "The Snow Child."  I had no idea why he said he wanted a daughter, and then when she died he stuck his "virile member" into the dead girl.  Im not sure if he was more longing for a better wife then his current wife, and was describing her or why this happened.

The points about Mr. Lyon made in class are very interesting because I was not sure why she saw him as a kind of beast-like mixture, but then at the end saw him as a man.  A relation I saw between this story and "The Bloody Chamber" was the girls in both books were disgusted by the men in the stories, by the beast and by the rich man.  But when they were away from these men, they for some reason missed them.  I was not sure why this was the case, but the explanations for Mr Lyon in class made sense.