While reading Undine, it is evident that there are some parallels between human and non-human relationships amongst various mermaid stores. It is interesting to me that most of these tales of love pertain to a female mermaid and a male nonhuman and their attempt at romance. If we are supposed to be learning a lesson from the patterns, it is understood they don’t mesh well. I am curious to know how dynamic character development will be surrounding these relationships. Will human non human romance always fail? Don’t mean to make a generalization, but from analyzing the texts we have already read and the films we have watched we can gather this as a common theme. Having talked about the idea of love and the different perspectives we create that come from influence, I am eager to see if these ideas connect. To be even more abstract, does the love fail in order to prove Undine’s connection with the natural world is too strong? She exclaims how the natural world is and “wonderful salamanders glitter and sport in the flames: lean and malicous gnomes dwell deep within the earth: spirits, belonging to the air, wander through the forests: and a vast family of water spirits live in the lakes and streams and brooks”(p. 104).