Why did the girl finally say I was happy?

I was very happy because I had my grandmother by my side. This is a sharp contrast between the beautiful fantasy of lighting a match and her real life of hunger and cold.

Through this fairy tale, Andersen expressed his deep sympathy for the tragic suffering of the poor people and his dissatisfaction with the society at that time, ruthlessly revealing the darkness and evil of capitalist society.

Because she didn’t sell a match, the little girl didn’t eat for a day. She was cold and hungry. She lit the first match and saw a warm stove. She lit the second match and saw the fragrant roast goose. She lit the third match and saw a beautiful Christmas tree. ; She polished the fourth stove and saw her long-lost grandmother.

Afraid that if the match went out, grandma would disappear like the stove, roasted goose, and Christmas tree, so he polished a whole handful of matches, hoping to keep grandma by his side. In the end, the little girl died with a smile on her lips. No one knew the beautiful scene she saw in her last moments of life.

Extended information:

In a social environment where there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor, the young master’s carriage is rampaging on the street. In order to avoid the speeding carriage, the little girl accidentally kills her mother. One of the big slippers for her got lost, and someone picked it up on the spot and laughed, saying that he could use it as a cradle when he has a child in the future.

This shows that in the society at that time, the happiness and happiness of the rich were based on the suffering of the poor. Such a society is so unfair to the poor. The double contrast between the natural environment and the social environment further highlights the disparity between the rich and the poor in society at that time.