How Does Zeena Have A Happy Ending

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Suggested Activities for Chapters 4 – 6
2.
Preface:
Start Playing “Entering the Shire”, from The Hobbit
This scene starts with one sole figure (The narrator) approaching a group of people with a figurative map in his hands. As the narrator reaches the group of people, they mumble some things that is too soft for the audience to hear, and after a person from the group points to a direction and the narrator walks that way. The group of people leave the stage, and at the same time, a lone man appears (Harmon Gow). As the two approaches, the music gradually dies down. They start talking their small conversation about Ethan. When they finish, the narrator leave Harmon and meets up with another, …show more content…
When a reader reads a book, most of them (myself included) expect a happy ending. But not just an ordinary happy ending, but one which all of the character’s problems are solved and their lived have changed for the better, but this novel isn’t like that. Just because Ethan and Mattie attempted suicide and have solved their small, internal problem about leaving each other, the main and broader conflict of Zeena’s illness and their lack of money still remains. In fact, I believe that the condition that they are in now is worse than when the book started. Back then, they still had Mattie to look forward to and as hope to make their lives better, but now Mattie was now paralyzed and no longer able to help around in the house and try to alleviate the stress that rests upon the shoulders of Ethan. Zeena, who had trusted her husband to forever be by her side now knew that Ethan didn’t like her and would go for another younger and more beautiful woman whenever the chance came along. And Ethan, who had a reasonably endurable life with the prospect of a better one with Mattie in the future, was now faced with the fact that his dream would now never happen, and he has to now support 3, helpless
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