How Does The Little Mermaid Original Story End?

Saw the Disney movie, but the Hans Christian Andersen original ending is way darker and haunting. Can anyone recap how Ariel's fate plays out without spoiling the whole tale?
2025-12-24 21:30:27
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Oswaldo Lopez
Oswaldo Lopez
The fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen ends much more sorrowfully than the Disney movie. Instead of marrying the Prince, the mermaid sticks to her type and the Prince marries a human Princess. The mermaid's sisters try to save her from dying at the Prince's hands by offering her a knife to kill him, but she is unable to carry out the deed and turns into sea foam. However, the mermaid has a chance to gain an immortal soul through her good deeds on earth. It is so bittersweet to read about a love that is literally out of this world. ‘The Merman, My Man’ is a story that has flipped the script in reverse. A modern woman accidentally hooks a grumpy, obnoxious merman and has to deal with him in this very strange, yet often very tense cohabitation. The story has lots of great humor and lots of personality clashes.
2026-07-31
Jack
Jack
Unlike Disney, The Original Mermaid doesn’t have a happy ending where our mermaid gets to kiss and have all her problems fixed. Instead, she gets turned into a pile of foam and it’s heartbreakingly cruel. However, the story’s compromise of the ‘daughters of the air’ is a beautiful and ethereal aspect to an otherwise unbefitting end. It’s not typically happy but it’s genuine and impressive in its own right.
2025-12-25
Blake
Blake
I find it very intriguing how this original fairy tale turns the typical romanticized mermaid story on its head. The mermaid’s silence is not endearing, it is crushing. She cannot tell the prince that she saved his life and thus he marries another. But the mermaid’s “failure” is also her greatest moral victory. She had refused to use any kind of violence, even when it would have been effortless, and thus earned herself the chance to gain an eternal soul in an immortal form. It is deeply, densely religious, but also simply and deeply human. It is a sad ending, but by no means a closing one. It lingers. And it makes one wonder if Andersen wasn’t working through some heavy personal issues in writing this. Yay.
2025-12-27
Bradley
Bradley
The Little Mermaid as written by Hans Christian Andersen is an extremely dark and powerful tale that is far more impactful than the Disney retelling. In the story, the Little Mermaid does not end up with the Prince as Disney suggested. Instead, he marries another woman, and the Little Mermaid is heartbroken. Instead of killing the Prince with a dagger that she was given, she dies of a broken heart, turning into sea foam. However, she is given the gift of life on land as a “daughter of the air” and attains a soul through good actions on earth. Very typically Andersen, it explores sacrifice and unrequited love in a way that very few children’s stories do.

It really brings home the sacrifices and pain that our mermaid goes through, particularly in scenes such as the mermaid’s grotesque dance on the sharp knives the prince brings her. It isn’t exactly a happy ending for the Little Mermaid but it is meaningful. It really makes you consider the depth of love, loss and sacrifice that one must go through for another. Not your typical kid’s story where they all get married and there are singing crabs!
2025-12-28
Jocelyn
Jocelyn
The original ending to The Little Mermaid is so sad it devastated me as a child. After the main character looses her voice, her family and her tail she doesn’t even get her true love. The Prince instead marries another woman, and he is given the option to die for her to return to life, but she doesn’t take that option. Instead she kills herself and turns to foam. After she dies the main character gets to go to the afterlife (as an air spirit) where she will be working towards earning a soul. It is very beautiful and haunting, but also kind of wrong. Why must she suffer so for love?
2025-12-29
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