"But a mermaid has no tears ... The animated film culminates with Ariel and Eric's wedding aboard a ship as it sails off. King Triton, Ariel's sisters, and other merpeople break the ocean's ...

Unlike other Disney fairy-tale endings, the end of The Little Mermaid is deeply bittersweet. True love saves the day, and there’s a big wedding ... head out to their ship, Triton emerges ...

The ballet plies the emotions of two central figures: the Poet, who represents Andersen himself and is aboard a ship for the wedding of Edvard and Harriette, and the Little Mermaid, whom the Poet ...