Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170515015929/@comment-1916997-20170515180600

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: I didn't, but as I understand it, even that has a happy ending of sorts, as the mermaid (who does not have a soul, and so can't have "eternal life"), is somehow granted being a being that does get an eternal life, so while she doesn't get the dude, she gets to live forever, instead of just dieing and becoming nothingness. Also, that's literally one story. Think of fairy tales as a whole, the ending is "and they lived happily ever after". Most fairytales do not have happy endings. Especially, in their original forms. The Little Mermaid is not an exception to the rule. As it follows the rules of being a cautionary tale. I'd love for you to list out all these fairy tales that have unhappy endings, because even in the original forms, they still end happy for the heroes. Snow is awoken by the Prince in Grimm's Snow White, Cinderella gets the Prince in Grimm and Perraut's Cinderella, etc.