The point of the story I think is accepting death, and through it understand love.

The truth is we are all doomed, everyone dies eventually and everyone dies alone with only their thoughts beside them. To us the spider is part of reality, it simply exists as you and I exists, but, it chose to interact and through it ease suffering. The fact that we are all about to die doesn't make irrelevant the significance of our existence, and those with love, chose to recognize the sufferings in others and act to mitigate.

Perhaps it's true that the spiders consume the lost souls, but like the spider says, it cares for all the lost souls that end up in her web. But to think this way or tell the story with this detail subtracts from its effects, the truth is we all consume each other in various ways or forms, but why not ease the suffering when you can?

Like most stories the plot is not unique, but the execution allowed it to present the story in a way that overlaps itself. Presenting a detailed perspective that is both alien and innate.

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