beinggayisokay:bonging:ouijaprince:The Little Mermaid was written as a love letter by Hans Christian
beinggayisokay:bonging:ouijaprince:The Little Mermaid was written as a love letter by Hans Christian Anderson to Edvard Collin. Anderson, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a young woman, proclaimed his love to him. He told him ”I long for you as though you were a beautiful Calabrian girl.” Edvard Collin turned Anderson down, disgusted. Anderson then wrote The Little Mermaid to symbolize his inability to have Collin just as a mermaid cannot be with a human. He sent it to Collin in 1936 and it goes down in history as one of the most profound love letters ever written.Most scholars and psychoanalysts concluded that Anderson was bisexual; however, he never acted upon his homosexual drives.The Little Mermaid, as it was originally written, did not have a happy ending.ohHoly crap -- source link