0 the ending of a story or series of events in which the people involved are happy or all problems are solved: --
What these two plays have in common is a strategy that still makes me cheerful as a writer - the false happy ending.
It's a happy ending (he even walks away into the stars!) for both him, and music.
It is the acquisition of land, not just of money (and certainly not of companionship) that defines the happy ending.
Again and again, journalistic and fictional narratives depict the museum as the happy ending to a collectible's journey.
And while the happy ending of the novel does not exclude heterosexual marriage, it certainly diminishes its importance.
The chronotope of universal history does not allow such individuals the kind of agency that can produce a happy ending for themselves as individuals.
Nonetheless, since the world may be deemed a better place without this ogre and his wife, a form of happy ending is still preserved.
The obstacles to a happy ending of the tale are not "outside" the essence of romantic marriage, to be removed through modernist reforms.
