Does Atonement Have a Sad Ending?
In Fact, the Happy Ending Is Complete Fiction; Both Robbie and Cecilia Died – Robbie from His Infected Wound, and Cecilia from the Bombing of a Tube Station...
In fact, the happy ending is complete fiction; both Robbie and Cecilia died – Robbie from his infected wound, and Cecilia from the bombing of a Tube station during the Blitz. Atonement is Briony's final attempt to repent for her actions.
What happens at the end of atonement?
The film ends with Cecilia and Robbie happily reunited nearby the sea house they planned to visit once Robbie came back from the army.
Does anyone die in atonement?
Cecilia and Robbie were never reunited: Robbie died of septicaemia at Dunkirk on the morning of the day he was to be evacuated and Cecilia died months later in the Balham tube station bombing during the Blitz. Briony hopes to give the two, in fiction, the happiness that she robbed them of in real life.
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