As I began reading the little mermaid the big thing I found was that living things arent just since it states “nor should it be imagined that there is nothing but bare,white,sandy ground below” and how the sea was “many church steeples deep”.I had found this introduction very interesting that the narrator is making it clear that we shouldnt have to use our imagination and just believe him that there is much below.This brings me to believe that instead of the handerson of stating that he doesnt know what lies below the ocean he said things like “the soil produces most curious trees and flowers” which makes it seem that ocean is a entire different planet compared to ours as such and tries to discourage his readers from trying to prove him wrong by saying that ocean ground is unreachable.He then proceeds to further this claim by comparing the fish as “birds that fly through trees”.I think that handerson makes the ocean floor as a different universe or different planet where the “humans” arent us but the mermaids.While we may see ourselves as the creatures that are superior the whole story could be reversed as well since it could be that the prince could be seen as the creature who has to seek to adapt to the mermaid.It makes the reader put themselve in the perspective that maybe is the situation was swapped then humans could be seen as the mermaid instead.