Assertion: mermaid | /r/HasProperty | kiniro
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text: And indeed, although I do have to admit that with The Mermaid Jan Brett has indeed retold the Goldilocks and the Three Bears thematics in an interesting and imaginative manner (and that mermaid Kiniro is thankfully also not quite as wilfully destructive as many of the Goldilocks whom I have textually encountered over the years have tended to be), there is still and nevertheless in The Mermaid that sense of entitlement present (of Kiniro simply to satisfy her own curiosity invading and occupying the Octopus Family’s home, destroying their possessions, sleeping in their beds, placing herself in needless peril) that I have always found so annoying and frustrating with regard to Goldilocks (and there equally never seems to be any kind of active contrition shown or lessons learned either, and yes, even Jan Brett’s mermaid does not in my opinion seem all that aware of the fact and truth that she should not have invaded the octopuses’ home in the first place).