Narration Processes: The Outcome

AND! outcome is the term to which the action arrives and, consequently, the part in which the unknown of the events that have occurred successively in the development of the plot is cleared. Most of the narrators prefer a soft ending to a strident one. It increases the interest of the reader to finish without really finishing, since the possible and future interpretation of the matter is left to his imagination. However, the outcome should not be too unexpected or clearly intuited. Moderation is the norm in literary matters.
Let's fix our attention on this mild denouement that Somerset Maug-ham offers us in Human Servitude:
- "Will you marry me, Sally?
The girl did not move. No sign of embarrassment appeared on her face, but she did not look at him as she replied, "You don't want it?"
"Oh, of course I would like to have a house of my own." And it is time that I thought about accommodating myself.
Philip smiled. He knew her well enough now and he was not surprised by her response. "But don't you want to marry me precisely?" "" I wouldn't marry anyone else. -Then we agree.

"Mom and Dad will be very surprised, don't you think?"
-I am so happy!
-We will have lunch?
- Dear!
She smiled, took his hand, and shook it. They got up and left the Gallery. They paused at the balustrade for a moment and stared at Trafalgar Square. Cars and buses ran in all directions, the crowd hurried by and the sun was shining. "[Cf. Complementary bibliography N? 36)
I selected this other simple and calm ending that I found in Bel Ami, by Guy de Maupassant:
"When she reached the threshold, she saw before her the black and murmuring mass of the crowd that had come there for him, Jorge Du Roy. The people of Paris watched him and envied him.
Then, looking up, she saw in the distance, on the other side of the Place de la Concorde, the Chamber of Deputies. And she seemed to him that she was going to jump from the portico of the Magdalena to the portico of the Bourbon Palace.
He slowly walked down the steps of the high staircase, between two rows of spectators. But he didn't see them. The thought of him went back, and / before his eyes, dazzled by the glare of the sun, floated the image íjdef W lady of Marelle, fixing before the mirror the rickets of the sims, which she always had in an uproar when she got out of bed. " (Cf. Complete bibliography) ip? pl ^ j || ijjfi9 37)