Comparing Pomona And Vertumnus

There are many similarities and differences between the little mermaid and Pomona and Vertumnus. One way they are similar is that in both stories each girls has a special hiding place filled with things that she loves that very few people are let into. Pomona is enclosed in her gardens, she “ loved not woods nor rivers but a plot of ground.” Ariel also has a special place under the sea that is a grotto filled with the things she loves the human artifacts. Another similarity between the two is the fact that in both stories the girls are aided by an old possibly considered “haggered” old lady. In Ariel it is Ursula that gives Ariel that means to go onto land without Ursula Ariel would not of been able to go find Eric and fall in love with him. In Pomona it is Vertumnus disguised as an old lady that aids Pomona by telling her a tragic story about a love passed up with no way to
In both stories the girls, Pomana and Daphne, have decided to shun away men and never to fall in love. Both Vertumnus and Apollo see these women from afar for their first meeting and instantly deeply fall in love. In both stories the ending revolves around one key aspect of transformation. In Pomona and Vertumnus, Vertumnus transformed into his true divine form “and stood revealed to her as when the sun Triumphs in glory through the clouds and rain....his beauty wins the day” it is in seeing this that makes Pomona fall in love with Vertumnus. It is the transformation of in Apollo and Daphne however that makes these two stores very different from one another. In this story Daphne unlike Pomona does not have a change in her feeling towards men and instead begs her father to take away her beauty so he changes her into a laurel tree. Although these stories have key similarities between the main characters, they both are very different in the way the stories play out and especial their