The Brothers Grimm’s “The Fisherman and His Wife”

A fisherman lived with his wife in a miserable pigsty by the sea.  When he went fishing, he pulled up a large flounder, a prince who began speaking with him and negotiated his release.  The fisherman simply let the talking fish go, leaving a trail of blood behind it.  Back home, his wife, surprised that he did not ask for anything, sends him back to wish for a nicer home.  He goes back, and the water is a bit murky now.  He sings a ditty, letting the flounder know this is against his wishes, and the fisherman and his wife’s house is a cottage with animals and a yard no sooner than the aquatic prince gives the word.

But the man’s wife increasingly hounds him to order better and better housing, and more and more power.  They ascend the social order, growing higher to the heavens, angering the sea and making themselves more and more anxious, until the linear story becomes a circle.

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