Question

Describe the little match girls hallucinations and their significance

Answer 1

When she lights the first match, she hallucinates a large iron stove with fire burning and she is feeling warm and when the fire goes out only the color of black and gray of the burnt-out match is seen.  This is the color of mourning and it also states what the girl’s fate is going to be.  


The second vision of hers is that the wall becomes a transparent veil. She could see a table decorated with Christmas Eve dishes and the goose hopped from the plate with fork and knife poked on its chest.  This signifies how hungry the child had been and it also signifies that she could only dream of having such a grand dinner but not in reality.    


In the third vision, she sees a beautifully decorated and lighted up Christmas tree.  Then she sees the colors and lights rise to become stars.  She also sees a star falling and remembers her grandmother saying when she was alive that when a star falls, a soul will ascend to God.  Her grandmother had been the only person who had shown her love.  This hallucination signifies that the soul to ascend would be hers and that she is earning to see her grandmother  


In the fourth vision, she sees her grandmother with all the love she had experienced standing there.  The girl lights up all the matchsticks so that her grandmother doesn’t disappear like all the others and begs her to take her alongwith her and her wish gets granted.  She is finally free of the freezing cold, hunger and the thrashing that she used to get from her father for not getting money for his drink.

 

Answer 2

The little girls match is a story of a little girl with a matchstick .this story was writen by a denish poet christian andersen

The story revolves around a young child who almost birying her hopes and dreams

This story has a tragic ending ,the little girl sets out with her grandmother