An Optimistic Ending

After our discussion in class today on why the ending of loving is so short and seemingly out of nowhere, I would like to give a more optimistic opinion of a possible reason for this bizarrely un detailed and short passage

Throughout the entirety of Loving, Raunce’s scheming, secrecy, and attempt to get dirt on the others of the mansion creates no end of complications for him. It causes Miss Burch not to trust him, Mrs. Jack become paranoid of him even though he had no idea what was going on, Mrs. Tenant thinks that he, like the rest of the staff, is acting either uneducated or flat out stupid, he becomes very sick, he gets into arguments with Edith, they loose the ring, he has that encounter with Mister Mathewson, etc, etc.

All of these things needlessly complicate Raunces life at the mansion, and for what? What does he get out of any of this? Nothing.

All right, that isn’t true, he does marry Edith in the end. But in the end he gets away from it all. He leaves the manor, he leaves this circle of deceit with his wife and tries to go onto something simpler, and maybe, one way or another, he finds it.

Maybe that’s the reason the ending paragraph is so short and simple, it matches the life he tries to lead after he and Edith have left the manor, knowing how much stress and unhappiness trying to maintain that deceit can bring

Yeah, it’s a bit optimistic, and part of me strongly agrees that a happy ending seems out of place in this story, but it might have happened for what little we know about their move to England