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Snow White whistles while she works, Ariel flips her fins, and Rapunzel gets really into crafting. Cinderella sings while scrubbing the floors, and Tiana wishes on a star in between running a business.

And in Frozen II, Elsa stands alone atop the highest tower, looking out on the blackness of the night. “The winds are restless,” she says to no one, before launching into a song about the inevitable forward march of time.

Oh, babe! Welcome to the community. Self-isolating, immobilized by the weight of personal expectations, and largely unable to experience joy, Elsa is the Anxious Girl’s heroine. The model for Disney princesses has changed over the years, but every one of them has fallen somewhere between aggressively perky and blindly optimistic. Cinderella is an indentured servant, Moana is tasked with saving her people from mass starvation, and Belle is both a kidnapping victim and an adult literacy instructor, but they each maintain the cheeriness of Mrs. Maisel after an extra-large cold brew. That’s the way some people function, and how nice for them! But in Frozen and Frozen II, now in theaters, Elsa is the queen of feeling fear without succumbing to its darkness. She doesn’t conquer her fear. She doesn’t vanquish it. She lives with it.

Elsa’s backstory reads like a therapist’s notes after an especially long intake session. When we meet her in the first Frozen movie, she’s an especially gifted child saddled with other people’s expectations. She sustains a major trauma after she feels responsible for her sister’s near-death experience. Her well-intentioned parents ask her to conceal the thing that makes her different and tell her to control her erratic emotions. (“Conceal, don’t feel” is not a great wellness mantra.) She loses her parents. She is politely reminded that the well-being of an entire Scandinavian kingdom rests on her. “Don’t panic,” her sister, Anna, cries, midway through the first movie, trying to extricate Elsa from her solitary ice palace. One fan theory is that Elsa is queer, and that the pressure to conceal her identity causes her constant distress. Elsa, shutting down, mumbles to herself, “There’s so much fear!” There is, she believes, “no escape from the storm inside of me.”