The Little Match Girl Analysis

The short story “The Little Match Girl” is an intriguing story that focuses on the life of a little girl who has no home and lives on the streets of a city with her grandmother. The story is set in a city in the bitter cold winter around the New Years holiday. Plot, setting, characters, and imagery all play a significant role in the story for they all help the reader understand the story better and they also help structure the story line.
The story’s plot begins by explaining how the little girl is living on the streets trying to get through life by selling matches. This creates an immediate theme of sadness. The reader more than likely feels bad for the little girl and her family while reading the story. The little girl sells matches on the

The little girl does not has a name, she is just described as a little girl who is poor. The girl lives on the streets with her dying grandma and is grateful for her grandmother taking care of her and raising her (**). The little girl becomes desperate for warmth in the bitterly cold weather during the climax of the story, and lights a match on the wall so she could feel the warmth of the flame. “Oh! a match might afford her a world of comfort.” The little girl was very brave in the sense that she suffered through the cold weather. This makes the reader understand the plot better because it makes the little girl have a hero image because she takes care of her dying grandma. The little girl also describes her grandmother as a beautiful and tall woman (**). This makes the reader understand that the little girl truly looks up to her grandmother and appreciates

The plot of the story was easy to understand. The setting of the story made the story more clear, and it also played an important role in making the story complete. Imagery played a very important role in the story as well. It made the story much more easier to understand and it gives the reader a clear view of what is happening in the story. the characterization of the story does not play as big of a role as the others but it still effects the story. Setting plays an important role too in the story for it sets the location of the events and also adds imagery to the story. In conclusion, the story was really easy to comprehend mostly due to its uses of imagery, setting, plot, and