Working on a story involving two sisters, one of whom has always been subservient to the other. She struggles against this, but the end transformation of the character occurs when she realizes that she'll never break loose from her sister - she just doesn't have the strength in her and she loves her sister perhaps more than herself. Certainly more than anyone or anything else.
Only had one beta reader, so n=1 here, but the reader thought the ending was unclear (or at least that the significance of the ending was unclear). The ending is there - it's the transformation from which the younger sister will never go back. Her world has undergone a shift. It's subtle. I don't make the point explicitly, but instead the reader is left to piece together just how significant this event is for the sister.
What do you all think - does that kind of subtle, open-to-interpretation ending bug you? Wouldn't you rather have the author state the point directly?
Only had one beta reader, so n=1 here, but the reader thought the ending was unclear (or at least that the significance of the ending was unclear). The ending is there - it's the transformation from which the younger sister will never go back. Her world has undergone a shift. It's subtle. I don't make the point explicitly, but instead the reader is left to piece together just how significant this event is for the sister.
What do you all think - does that kind of subtle, open-to-interpretation ending bug you? Wouldn't you rather have the author state the point directly?