So I’ve been thinking about the novel for awhile and I can’t seem to decide if i think it has a happy ending or not. I don’t know if I really should be all that concerned with whether it’s happy, but it’s driving me a little crazy. Even though Eben doesn’t seem sad at the end, it still seems upsetting. He says, “It’s still all right”. I don’t think it’s all right though. I think it’s all wrong. If two people are meant to be together and their connection so strong that they defy time, then it seems so pessimistic and negative to write a story that ends with the two still seperated. Also, they don’t both die. We can’t think that they’re together in heaven because Eben is still alive. So where are they together? Jennie says, “we’ll always be together… somewhere…”. I feel like Eben is always left behind. I think I’m just sad that Jennie is without him for her entire life, not sharing her ups and downs with him, and it’s only for a second that they are actually together. Yet, the idea that Eben has justified to himself that the one second they are together actually solitified their passion to the point where it not only defies time but now life itself, is somewhat optimistic or romantic in a way. I think I have gotten to the point where I don’t believe in the disney fairy tale and prince charming, nor do I want it, and these unrealistic notions of love upset me more.