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 from Somerset Maug-ham in Human Serfdom:
- "Will you marry me, Sally?
The girl did not move. No sign of embarrassment appeared on his face, but he did not look at her as he 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 she 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!
He smiled, took her hand, and shook it. They got up and left the Gallery. They paused for a moment by the balustrade and looked up 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 he reached the threshold, he saw before him the black and noisy 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, he saw in the distance, on the other side of the Place de la Concorde, the Chamber of Deputies. And it seemed to him that he was going to jump from the portico of the Magdalena to the portico of the Bourbon Palace.
He slowly descended 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 in 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)