这篇故事收集在《新的童话》里，整个情节像一首诗——一首歌颂天真无邪、纯洁感情的诗诗中的主人公小女孩格尔达有点像《野天鹅》中的小妹妹艾丽莎，她用她坚强的毅力和纯真的感情，冲破一切艰难险阻，终于战胜了重重困难，使她亲爱的朋友小小的加伊得救她的这种力量是从哪里来的呢？没有任何人“能给她比她现在所有的力量更大的力量：你没有看出这力量是怎样大吗？……她的力量就在她的心里；她是一个天真可爱的孩子——这就是她的力量如果她自己不能到白雪皇后那儿，把玻璃碎片从小小的加伊身上取出来，那么我们也没有办法帮助她！”小小格尔达有这种力量，但得自己去发挥，自己去奋斗这就是这个故事所给予人们的启示据说这篇故事与安徒生和瑞典著名的女歌唱家珍妮的关系有关他年轻时曾经以极纯真的感情崇爱过她但他却没有得到小小的格尔达所得到的那样的结果：珍妮告诉他，他们之间的感情是兄妹之间的感情，而不是其他THE SNOW QUEEN 白雪皇后FIRST STORY. Which Treats of a Mirror and of the SplintersNow then, let us begin. When we are at the end of the story, we shall knowmore than we know now: but to begin.Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievousof all sprites. One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirrorwith the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it wasreflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothingand looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. In this mirrorthe most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best personswere turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faceswere so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had amole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both noseand mouth."That's glorious fun!" said the sprite. If a good thought passed through aman's mind, then a grin was seen in the mirror, and the sprite laughedheartily at his clever discovery. All the little sprites who went to hisschool--for he kept a sprite school--told each other that a miracle hadhappened; and that now only, as they thought, it would be possible to see howthe world really looked. They ran about with the mirror; and at last there wasnot a land or a person who was not represented distorted in the mirror. Sothen they thought they would fly up to the sky, and have a joke there. Thehigher they flew with the mirror, the more terribly it grinned: they couldhardly hold it fast. Higher and higher still they flew, nearer and nearer tothe stars, when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning, that itflew out of their hands and fell to the earth, where it was dashed in ahundred million and more pieces. And now it worked much more evil than before;for some of these pieces were hardly so large as a grain of sand, and theyflew about in the wide world, and when they got into people's eyes, there theystayed; and then people saw everything perverted, or only had an eye for thatwhich was evil. This happened because the very smallest bit had the same powerwhich the whole mirror had possessed. Some persons even got a splinter intheir heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lumpof ice. Some of the broken pieces were so large that they were used forwindowpanes, through which one could not see one's friends. Other pieces wereput in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glassesto see well and rightly. Then the wicked sprite laughed till he almost choked,for all this tickled his fancy. The fine splinters still flew about in theair: and now we shall hear what happened next.SECOND STORY. A Little Boy and a Little GirlIn a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, thatthere is no roof left for everybody to have a little garden; and where, onthis account, most persons are obliged to content themselves with flowers inpots; there lived two little children, who had a garden somewhat larger than aflower-pot. They were not brother and sister; but they cared for each other asmuch as if they were. Their parents lived exactly opposite. They inhabited twogarrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and thegutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a smallwindow: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to theother.The children's parents had large wooden boxes there, in which vegetables forthe kitchen were planted, and little rosetrees besides: there was a rose ineach box, and they grew splendidly. They now thought of placing the boxesacross the gutter, so that they nearly reached from one window to the other,and looked just like two walls of flowers. The tendrils of the peas hung downover the boxes; and the rose-trees shot up long branches, twined round thewindows, and then bent towards each other: it was almost like a triumphantarch of foliage and flowers. The boxes were very high, and the children knewthat they must not creep over them; so they often obtained permission to getout of the windows to each other, and to sit on their little stools among theroses, where they could play delightfully. In winter there was an end of thispleasure. The windows were often frozen over; but then they heated copperfarthings on the stove, and laid the hot farthing on the windowpane, and thenthey had a capital peep-hole, quite nicely rounded; and out of each peeped agentle friendly eye--it was the little boy and the little girl who werelooking out. His name。