Synopsis

• An evil goblin made a magic mirror that only showed the worst of people. The mirror was smashed and the shards flew down to earth.
• Kay and Gerda were th best of friends until a shard from the mirror got in Kay's eye, and in his heart. So all he could see was the worst of things.
• Kay see's The Snow Queen and is enchanted and he follows her home.
• Gerda wonders where Kay has gone and sets off on a long adventure to find him.
• She finds Kay at the Snow Queens palace trying to peice together an imposible puzzle. She weeps for joy at seeing him again and a tear from her eye falls on his heart and dislodges the mirror shard there. Kay cries to see gerda and the shard from his eye falls out.
• They return home to live out ther rest of there lives.

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Analysis

Aside from the Snow White story I think that the mirrors biggest role was in this story The Snow Queen, written by Hans Christian Anderson. The mirror in this tale was a thing of complete evil, made for nothing other than malicious intent.
                       
Why are mirrors so often portrayed as things of evil, or wicked being?

This could be perhaps because for so long the realm of Faerie, or the realm of magic has been associated with evil, or wicked creatures. The mirror has many associations with this realm through  mythical creatures like the Vampire, and then even today in such urban legends as Bloody Mary.