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| Sep 6, 2019 at 4:31 | comment | added | Cyn | @MarkBaker I wouldn't say a happy ending is where the audience ends up happy but, rather, where the storyline evokes happiness in the audience (or the audience recognizes the attempt, even if they don't find it successful). The reader or viewer does not actually have to be happy, it's more about feeling the happiness of the storyline, if that makes sense. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 3:37 | comment | added | user16226 | This is an interesting approach to the question. Essentially I think you are saying that a happy ending is not one in which the protagonist ends up happy, but one in which the audience ends up happy. You may be on to something, but the difficulty is the obvious subjectivity of the definition. Lots of books that end happy make me unhappy because they were bad books and I wasted my time reading them. Others end tragically but make me feel happy because they were brilliant. | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 19:39 | history | answered | Cyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |