What do the dwarfs do with all of the diamonds that they mine?
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, I don't really understand what the dwarfs do with the precious jewels that they mine because they don't have separate houses or even a very big house.
Considering how untidy and dirty they are too, they don't have a cleaner! Surely they would make a lot of money from these jewels? Also how do they pay for their house if they do not sell them? Don't know whether I'm looking into this too deep.
Best Answer
It's never explained and, it's possible, they do it just because it's their job.
There's even a line in the song "Heigh-ho"...
We dig up diamonds by the score
A thousand rubies, sometimes more
Though we don't know what we dig 'em for
We dig dig dig a-dig dig
It's also worth noting that they don't care about mine security since they leave the key to the mine vault right outside the vault door on a hook. In other words, they just like to dig the diamonds for no real reason.
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Answer 2
They hoard them. Dwarves love gold/diamonds/precious elements just for themselves, and not for what it can buy them.
This obsession to mine and hoard these elements is unlike someone who sees diamonds etc. as a commodity or currency and what these things can do for them. In themselves, these things have no real value besides looking pretty. Or of course you have industrial use for them, for example. Dwarves in western myth have a natural and innate love for diamonds and/or other precious metals/stones which results in coveting them for the sake of coveting them, having possession of them alone (kind of like a drug addict and the drug they are addicted to). These dwarves are no different. They mine and hoard because they can't help themselves.
(The irony in this is the fact that dwarves seem to be attracted to elements that others find valuable (because of their high trade in or market value), which to me, seems to show a kind of tendency to hoard something that others like, and this fact may actually be the real cause of their obsession, which is something to consider as well. But that's a topic for another question.)
Answer 3
I don't know if this is correct, but thinking on other adaptations to Snow White, we see the queen as a dictator that takes everything from everybody, maybe it is their payment so no one meddles with them and their life. Also they probably own the house and get their food from the forest, they don't have a luxurious life which also means that they live with what they can find.
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