Happily ever after
Jul. 31st, 2012 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A happy ending is epitomized in the standard fairy tale ending phrase, "happily ever after" or "and they lived happily ever after." (One Thousand and One Nights has the more restrained formula they lived happily until there came to them the One who Destroys all Happiness (i.e. Death)). Satisfactory happy endings are happy for the reader as well, in that the characters he or she sympathizes with are rewarded.