The story of Pomona and Vertumnus narrates the story of an impossible love. Pomona was this gorgeous nymph who Vertumnus was deeply in love with. He would dress up and act differently in order to impress Pomona every time he saw her. But every time he tried to make her notice him, he failed. Since he never reached his goal, Vertumnus then decides to dress up as an old lady. "The old lady" approaches Pomona and tells her how beautiful she is and recommends her to get a love partner.
In this story I was able to identify a lot with Vertumnus. Even though he is a guy, I was able to familiarize a lot with him since it isn't easy to be ignored by the one you love. When one is truly in love, you do everything in order to gain the attention of that person. Feeling completely ignored and as a failure, Vertumnus then decides to tell Pomona the story of Cinyras and Myrrha. This story narrates how a daughter, Myrrha falls in love with her own dad, Cinyras and eventually has a love affair with him. Aphrodite allowed Myrrha to love his father, since she had many followers but still didn't love any. However, this obsession between family members doesn't last for long, since when Cinyras notices that he was actually sleeping with his own daughter, he tries to drown her. She scarily reacts since she noticed what her father was trying to do, and decides to leave and transform into anything else.
How could a so called love story end in hatred and death?
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