The ending of the novel does not satisfied me at all. I was expecting something different maybe more action more drama or something with a bang at the end. The conclusion was unclear and kind of mysterious. What really happen at the end?? Did they getaway with murder and was on their retreat to Mexico? Did they get married? Or did Walter and Phyllis committed suicide? Whatever it was I did not like it.
Walter and Phyllis should have received different treatment in my eyes. It was obvious that something was going to happen to the both of them. But never picture that the ending that, it ended up to be. Like I have been talking about Phyllis being the femme fatale and Walter being the ambiguous protagonist (on others blogs), we all knew that Walter was going to be in trouble at the ending for hanging around Phyllis, but never pictured death or married to the black widow. Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton “Towards a Definition of Film Noir,” said on the article "Sordidly or bizarrely, death always comes at the end of a tortured journey. In every sense of the word, a noir film is a film of death." So I guess I was expecting death, I was expecting death upon Phyllis, the bad, crazy woman but not Walter.
I agree with what you are saying, I feel as a reader, reading the novel for the first time, that the ending in the novel made no sense to me what so ever. I, like you, was expecting something more. Or like you said, "something with a bang", the ending does leave you thinking of what the whole point of the ending mean't. The conclusion i did not like. Like-wise i was expecting death on Phyllis's part, not Walter. I think what you wrote is very well analyzed and makes allot of meaning full sense to me. Good Job.
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