Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm (Crane), Part A

Cottage by STVIOD

I love stories that deal with the sea. There’s just something about them that are interesting to me. I like how you can’t really tell what decade this takes place in. He caught a flounder and the wife wants him to go back and ask the flounder for a cottage. The fisherman then says a little chant. She is not satisfied and keeps asking for more. First a cottage, then a castle, then a request to be king, emperor, pope. She is frankly asking for too much. The flounder had enough of her shenanigans and left her back in their hovel.

The next story starts off sounding sad already. Stories that start off with death just makes me not want to continue. I like how there is like a verse or chant occasionally. Rhymes are the best, but hard to comprehend sometimes. Go and shoe does not rhyme?

The next story also has a verse that is repeated throughout. This is very descriptive of the actions happening. It’s easy to imagine. “The robber, who during the story had grown deadly white, sprang up and would have escaped.”


Bibliography: Brothers Grimm (Crane) by Lucy and Walter Crane