How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"These were my stupidities: I thought the good are destroyed while the evil survive and prosper." (55.3.13)
Sometimes it's hard to look at the world and not be at least a little pessimistic about it. But this passage, which comes in the last pages of the novel, is clearly setting a tone for how we should interpret the book as a whole. And that interpretation is that evil does not always win, even if it may seem like it. Considering the end of the novel, with Adam paralyzed from a stroke and Aron dead, it's an unusual way for good to triumph. Yet even if Cal did give in to his jealousy and indirectly cause his brother's death, and even if Kate did get away with murder(s), there can still be redemption, hope, and maybe (dare we say it) a happy ending.