So what accounts for their popularity ? Some have suggested it is becaracters are always striving for happiness . But the truth probably lies in their origin their origin. The Grimms' tales were born out of a storytelling tradition without boundaries of age or culture .The brothers skill was to translate into a universal style of writing that seems to mirror whatever moods or interests we bring to our reading of them. And so it was that the Grimms' fairy tales lived happily ever after