Sort of? ("And at that thought, thinking about it, he began to laugh.") But I feel like what I'm detecting is a sense that the ending determines how the rest of the book is read - that if the ending is happy then it must have been a happy book.
I once got a lot of people to yell at me by arguing that if a narrative resolves into triumph or happiness then, even if there were horrific scenes or an overall horrific affect prior to that, it’s no longer a work of horror-qua-horror
This! Because I think that is not necess. how I'm thinking about them at all? And esp in the books I'm thinking of as grim (and kind of looping to what Abigail said) - some of them have a very tempered or scaled down sort of triumph at the end and that feels a part of that whole grimness thing?
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