own a shovel full of linseed into the ashes; if you can pick these seeds all out and bring them to me in two hours you shall go" (Grimm 91). Likewise, in the story of Cupid and Psyche, Venus gives Psyche the impossible task of sorting through seeds for her to complete if she wants to see Cupid again. "With that she took a great quantity of the smallest of seeds, wheat and poppy and millet and so on, and mixed them all together in a heap. 'By nightfall these must all be sorted'" (Hamilton 102). These tasks each had to perform are almost exactly alike. Both Cupid and Psyche and the Grimm's Cinderella have impossible tasks, yet they are different in their own ways by how the task is to be completed and what the task includes. Cinderella only has to sort through one kind of seed, while Psyche has to sort through numerous seeds. Also, Psyche has four t
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