Out of curiosity, how were you guessing it would end?

I no longer remember! I suspect either something more traditionally tragic or more romantically redemptive, however, and I am quite happy that the actual film did not.

(Which is almost literally a very dick-measure-y book.)

Mostly what I can remember about that book is I bounced off it so hard, one of us got bruises. I hope it was Hemingway.