A novel’s ending can function as an object-lesson rather than a resolution

Evidence

This is then the ultimate sense in which the novel’s comic yet rueful ending-the ultimate fate of Mademoiselle Corman, married, and an old maid all at once! the very caricature of a dialec­ tical resolution-is p9t truly a definitive one, but merely a horrible object-lesson. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3990

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ADDENDUM on sacrifice — endings as structural lessons rather than closures echo how ritual deaths encode social messages. — connects to: Novels can expose imperialism through their endings rather than endorse it — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 414; Murder provides closure in fiction that real coexistence cannot — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 289

Broader Connections

• Novels can expose imperialism through their endings rather than endorse it #expands (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 414
• Murder provides closure in fiction that real coexistence cannot #exemplifies (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 289