在小说的开篇，作者表面上描写的是四姐妹由于生活因为贫穷不得不接受母亲的

At the beginning of the novel, the author ostensibly described that the four sisters had to accept the mother’s suggestion to cancel the Christmas presents they had been looking forward to because of their poverty. In fact, they wanted to reflect the misery life of the poor people in American society at that time: a busy year They can't realize the children's little Christmas wishes. It can be said that such an environment is very unfavorable for the physical and mental growth of characters. But the subtlety of the author is that she does not try her best to describe the suffering lives of the characters in the novel, but to show their touching emotions of comforting and warming each other in a difficult situation, so that a harmonious and happy family life can bring harmony and happiness to the suffering people. Get spiritual comfort in the family life of the protagonists to realize the self-growth and self-salvation of the protagonists.

At the opening of the novel, the author ostensibly depicts the four sisters living because of poverty had to accept their mother's advice to cancel their christmas gifts for a year, but in order to reflect the poor people of American society at that time of the suffering of life: a busy year, they can not achieve the children's small Christmas wishes. It can be said that such a large environment for the physical and mental growth of the characters is very unfavorable. But the subtlety of the author is that she does not try to describe the suffering life of the novel characters, but shows how they comfort each other in difficult situations, warm each other's moving emotions, so that harmonious and happy family life to the suffering people from a harmonious and happy family life to get spiritual comfort, so as to achieve the hero's self-growth and self-rescue.

At the beginning of the novel, the author superficially describes that the four sisters had to accept their mother's advice to cancel their Christmas gifts because of their poverty. In fact, they wanted to reflect the miserable life of the poor people in American society at that time: they were busy for a year, but they could not realize their little Christmas wishes. It can be said that such a big environment for the character's physical and mental growth is very unfavorable. However, the author's subtlety lies in that she does not try her best to describe the miserable life of the characters in the novel, but shows their touching feelings of how to comfort and warm each other in the predicament, so that the harmonious and happy family life can give the suffering people spiritual comfort from the harmonious and happy family life, so as to realize the self growth and self salvation of the protagonists.<br>