Week 14: Reading notes part A: The Fisherman and His Wife

The fisherman and the flounder prince. Source

In this story, the fisherman catches a flounder who claims to be a prince. The prince begs the fisherman to let him go, and so he does. The flounder swims away and a trail of blood follows him. The fisherman goes back home to his wife and tells her about the prince. She tells him that he must go back and ask the flounder to give them a new cottage. It is a mystery how the wife knows that the prince will grant her wish. The fisherman goes back to the flounder and asks for his wish, and he grants it! The wife shortly becomes unhappy with the cottage and wants a bigger house. The fisherman thinks that his wife is being greedy and does not want to ask the prince, but he goes anyway. 

Bibliography: Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Lucy Crane and illustrated by Walter Crane (1886).

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