Quote Originally Posted by pathoftheturtle View Post
Why do people take it for granted that there is some solution in fact and that Gan must be fair? Maybe iwhat's wrong is not just threats from outside but a flaw in the Tower itself. I don't always expect a happy ending from Stephen King.
true, and adding to that, the story itself is a remake of the modernist quest for finality, certainty and meaning are turned on its head, leaving the overall plot partly the result of accident and arguably without meaning. And although we are not in the "meaning of the rose" thread i would like to add, The rose alludes to the possibility of many meanings or of nebulous meaning, the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in meanings that by the end it hardly has any meaning.
Thoughts?
to copress all of that i would simply add "Its the same old song and dance"