It uses many details of experiences of his relatives who had emigrated to America and is the only work for which Kafka ever considered an optimistic ending.

Consider it an optimistic ending.

Furthermore, a romance novel must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending."

Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending."

Therefore, the general definition, as embraced by the RWA and publishers, includes only the focus on a developing romantic relationship and an optimistic ending.

If Montag's flight to the Book People is meant to provide an optimistic ending, it does not succeed.

There is a strain of falseness to the book's optimistic ending, which, after all, is really only optimistic for the characters who are young and well.

"The song bemoans what crazy people have done to the neighborhood, but it also has an optimistic ending, that we'll rise above it all," he said.

"There has to be one man and one woman and, no matter the ensuing complications, an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending," she said.

Some versions even end with the nuclear explosions, leaving the movie with a quite pessimistic outcome as opposed to the Japanese version's optimistic ending.