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Denise asked this question about The Paper Palace:
Anyone finished who wants to discuss the ending? I am still not sure how I feel about it, am ruminating.
Lara Dillon OK - so all you people made me go back and read the ending and the beginning over and over again!! Uggghh. OK so I thought for sure she stayed with Pe…moreOK - so all you people made me go back and read the ending and the beginning over and over again!! Uggghh. OK so I thought for sure she stayed with Peter. And to be honest - there is no other choice. She has a wonderful loving family, a husband who adores her, still has a great sex life after three kids, a mother that adores her husband and he adores her back. its all just ridiculous really but I think after reading the end and the beginning, that she chose Jonas!!! Two lines at the beginning. She says: I could look at him and listen to him for eternity - it is all i ever want" (that quote is very truncated BTW - wont type it all). Last sentece of opening schene " After describing thier romp outside the house she says " "I love him, I hate myself, I love myself, I hate him. THis is the end of a very long story". She could remove the wedding ring everytime she swims, but she never mintions it. The thing that throws me is "i squeeze it tight against my life line one final time before leaving it behind me on the top step" SHe is heading down to take her sime and Jonas is there as she says, " across the pond a figure stands, waiting, hoping, I can just make out his blue shirt". ANd then all that about the sun breaking free of its tethers. Her breaking free finally and going for what she always wanted, always knew should be - Jonas. I AM DISAPOINTED> BUt seriously i have to laugh - I mean seriously she is just gonna swim off into the sunrise with Jonas. Just announce she is leaving her husband. Its kind of dumb. This isnt so neat and tidy. Maybe she just means shse is staying at the paper palace forever and everyone else can just figure out what they are gonna do around her. Like someone else said, make the men choose for her(less)
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The Paper Palace
by Miranda Cowley Heller
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