Ariel (The Little Mermaid) band. Ariel first appears in "The Little Mermaid" (1989), in which she is shown as being adventurous and curious about the world of humans, a fascination which angers both her father King Triton and his court composer Sebastian, as merfolk are not allowed to make contact with the human world. She and Flounder go in search of human objects, which they take to a seagull named Scuttle for appraisal. Ariel falls in love with a human prince named Prince Eric after saving him from drowning, and visits the sea witch, Ursula, who agrees to turn her into a human in
The Flounder brilliant writing in "The Flounder". For a writer justly famous for extended humorous and grotesque scenes, Grass also has a flair for one-liners. Herbert Mitgang of the "New York Times" noted that the novel was about "women, men and the state of the world" and since all are controversial, so was the reaction to Grass' novel. It defies an easy summary, as the narrator tells of his many lives as a husband, including as a lover to 11 women cooks. The Flounder The Flounder () is a 1977 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It is loosely based on