Sad books with false happy endings?

[kelby_lake]

I know that Cat on A hot Tin Roof was bowdlerised on film but the ending:

*SPOILER*
of the film, where brick tells maggie that they are through with lies and liars then seduces her, I think is actually quite effective because their marriage and this pretence is the biggest lie of all as brick is gay

Are there any books like that- a sort of ironic happy ending?

[Jozanny]

I know that Cat on A hot Tin Roof was bowdlerised on film but the ending:

*SPOILER*
of the film, where brick tells maggie that they are through with lies and liars then seduces her, I think is actually quite effective because their marriage and this pretence is the biggest lie of all as brick is gay

Are there any books like that- a sort of ironic happy ending?

Great Expectations has two, actually. Dickens wanted to end the novel on a more realistic note, where Pip cannot win Estella. A colleague thought Dickens' audience would not accept this, so Dickens wrote a second last chapter where Pip gets his girl. My edition has both endings.

[aeroport]

Crime And Punishment :flare: :sick:

[kelby_lake]

I can't remember what happened at the end, really :)

[FalseReality]

Life of Pi

[Pensive]

Crime And Punishment :flare: :sick:

*seconds Jamesian*

[Leabhar]

Crime And Punishment :flare: :sick:

Nah, its not a false happy ending. He found God and all that.

[kiki1982]

They changed the end of Monte Christo in the French film... It would have become too ong otherwise... In the English version they just changed the whole story... :flare: In the French version he went back to Mercédès...

They changed the end of Sense and Sensibility in the version with Hugh Grant, I think (?)... My class made a book review about the book, thinking about Jane Austen being absolutely not so boring for them, I suppose... Anyway, they couldn't finish it apparently, because the teacher all got book reviews with a different ending than the book's... They al watched the film the evening before...:p