The film confuses the viewer on what message it’s giving because the first two visions are symbols for shelter and food basic needs but the last vision takes a strange turn with the dancing angels and the little girl receiving flowers from cherubs. The film takes on a religious tone through its symbolism of the angels and God’s alter taking the emphasis away from the girl and focusing on what heaven might look like. The conflict is not obvious, compared to Andersen’s. Andersen’s symbolism of the visions, each vision leads to what the girls wants and at the same time brings back memories when she felt love. In the vision of the Christmas tree a star is falling which symbolizes that the little girl is going to die and be visited by the one person she loved. Conflict between life and death.
The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire. Someone is just dead!" said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, (Andersen, paragraph 10, line