This whole section is the story of the Little Mermaid.
I think this when compared to the Disney version of the Little Mermaid epitomizes this class. We read stories and learn how to retell them in different ways. It seems to me that that's exactly what Disney did here and what they do for many of their movies that are adapted from older tales.
I think this story was only half maintained in the newer version that everyone knows. Ariel is the meek person described in this original fairy tale, but the way her story ends up could not be more different. And then, of course, the original fairy tale does not have the exciting sidekicks in Flounder and Sebastian that she has in the movie.
I think retelling this story with a darker ending would take it a step even further away from the pleasant Disney version. Something more heartbreaking, like the prince does actually realize his love for her but it's too late and she slips from his fingers. Or, somehow, she tries to revisit the witch or her family after she's already been changed into a human but she doesn't realize that humans can't breathe underwater or something. So she would drown before reaching her family's kingdom.
Or, taking the general outline of the story, girl escapes her family to pursue boy, and transposing it into an entirely new situation to spice it up a bit. I haven't done that kind of situation for a story in a while. Or, and I do this quite a lot, using the price's perspective to write the story. I think especially in this case, his story would be very much different than how we hear it from Ariel's point of view.
(The Little Mermaid's sisters, web source: Wikimedia)
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