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
return back. It is partly because of this Pomona decided to give love a chance and falls in love with Vertumnus. The differences between these two stores beginning with the role of the old women. In Ariel Ursula comes back to stop Ariel from falling in love, she henders Ariel by making Ariel's love Eric fall in love with herself instead of Ariel. Whereas in Pomona the old woman's role is open Pomona heart and to help her to fall in love with Vertumnus. Another difference is the fact the Ariel did not purposefully shun men she had just never fallen in love with some where as with Pomona she was purposefully shunning men and refusing to be with them such as “the sex she shunned, what tricks they did not try”
In the stories of Apollo and Daphne and Pomona and Vertumnus, there are both similarities and differences.
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
endings.
Both Pomona and then Vertumnus go through a change or transformation, First Vertumnus goes through many physical transformations, He goes from looking like a reaper to looking like an old women. Throughout most of the story Vertumnus shows himself to Pomona as a merely human worker. It is until he is asking her to give him a chance with her that he reveals his true form and shows her his transformation from a human to a God. Pomona also goes through a change, in the beginning she has enclosed herself away from men by tending to her garden, she refuses all contact or relationship with men, however after seeing Vertumnus go through his transformation she also goes through hers by pursuing Vertumnus, and falling in love with a man.