This tale portrays a certain psychological type who cannot be happy in the moment because he, like the fir tree of this story, expects greater glory just around the corner and then is overwhelmed with regret. The fir-tree is “a fantasist, vain, fearful, restless type, afflicted with the trembling sensitivity of the neurotic, manically swinging from hope to misery.”
Those in the Armstrong churches (especially Dave Packs little cult of horrors) of God should be able to identify with the tragic fir-tree’s anxious longing and limitless pining for something better to come. If the sad truth be known, THIS IS IT!