this is hardly a life-affirming story in the ordinary sense of the term, but it does affirm something more important than life: the truth of the heart when it aspires to a happiness absolutely pure.
这个故事以一般意义而言,很难说是对入世人生观的肯定,然而它却肯定了比生存更重要的一件事:心灵渴求一种绝对纯凈的幸福真谛。