Why Does The Ending Of Three Reasons For Revenge Happen?

Question

Felt devastated after finishing this manhwa—did the antagonists truly deserve that revenge or was it too cruel? Could someone break down the protagonists' final motivations?

Amy Bridges · Answer

The conclusion of a story typically occurs when the main character reaches the end of their motivations, either by successfully completing their task and achieving closure or by having the conflict come to an end for them. In 'Three Reasons for Revenge' the protagonist completes their mission, while in 'The Art of Revenge' the story reaches its conclusion when the protagonist outwits his foe in a very public and psychologically crushing way. In both cases the end feels right, complete and well themed.

Sawyer · Answer

The ending of ‘Three Reasons for Revenge’ was very emotionally sharp because it was 100% driven by the concept of the book: revenge as intentionally and carefully revealed. It was very clever how the writer worked out the parcel-as-device to set up the rest of the plot, as critics and synopses have noted. This ending has stayed with me for a long time after I finished the book, and that in itself speaks to how good a job the writer did in setting up the finale. It is not a typical ending in that it does not bring closure or satisfy the reader in that way. Rather, it prompts the reader to consider the ways in which that person’s decision has affected others’ lives in terms of who will survive and who will not, and how that person’s actions relate to their perception of justice. It also makes the reader think about the ways in which a person who has been harmed by the lack of justice within the existing system can take matters into their own hands in this way.

Levi · Answer

The ending of Three Reasons for Revenge is very effectively sealed by motive plus plotting. Some person wants to make clear how much harm they can cause in private life, and so sends three packages, each of which is tailor-made to wreck the lives of particular individuals in highly personal ways. A lot of the reviews, and also the book’s promo, have focused on these deliveries in turn, and how each is designed to wreak havoc on a person’s reputation. What actually happens, in the end, is that the person who caused all this has been using their Revenge as a way to make amends for past failures – most of them institutional, it seems – and they are willing to increase the level of devastation until they have exposed the truth, however loathsome that is to us. I found that the emotional logic of revenge was cleverly linked to the unfolding of the investigation into these deliveries, to create a very effective and not at all randomly-chosen closure.

Liam · Answer

The end of Three Reasons for Revenge is impressive in that it is carefully designed rather than coincidence. The revenge at the center of the book is methodical and intended to be theatrical in order to force others to realize the full extent of the sufferings they caused. A timeline and a number of tools to expose have been prepared by the person who puts the three packages into the mail. The packages are sent to a psychologist, a socialite and a single father. Each of the packages is intended to be destructive to the individual who receives it and also to expose the systems and people that allowed the abuses to occur in the first place. I was especially struck by how Judith Lee’s past actions and the institutional failures she is aware of are used by the perpetrator to design the three packages to cause the maximum amount of pain and exposure. The ending of Three Reasons for Revenge is not a surprise in that it is the logical and brutal result of revenge intended to be a lesson. The trauma and secrecy that have been the core of the book are forced into the public sphere and old guilt is dragged out of the closet. It is a powerful and devastating ending. I was also left to consider the cost of inaction as well as the clever plan designed by the perpetrator.

Gavin · Answer

As for the ending of Three Reasons for Revenge, I think it was inevitable given the way the author set up the book as a series of secrets, guilt and exposure. The three parcels of doom are not just random packaging throughout the novel, each is carefully tailored to wreak specific havoc upon the lives of those who represent various wrongful doings and attendant social privilege. And in each case, the unfortunate package recipient’s private transgressions are revealed in public calamity. The novel is also a thoughtful excoriator of how institutions of power typically fail to support the survivor of trauma, and so it’s only natural that someone might resort to dangerous and unlawful revenge in order to shame the wrongdoer. The novel describes the entanglement of Judith, a conflicted character who made some questionable choices as a professional and who as a result has had to navigate the normal institutional failures to support the victim in order to stay employed. Her personal involvement in her own revenge makes for a personal and caustic confrontation with her own culpability. The ending was hard to take but also impossible to put down.

Joseph · Answer

One of the most impressive things about the way Three Reasons for Revenge comes to a close is how it ultimately feels less like one single surprising twist and more like the last note of a deeply intricate and fully realized piece of vengeance that has been carefully orchestrated from start to finish. On the surface, the story’s conclusion centers around a complex long-planned scheme which utilized three separate parcels as both weapons of punishment and powerful messages. The parcels in question exposed long-buried crimes, manipulated circumstance to dole out harm to specific individuals, and in several cases resulted in their ultimate deaths. Of course, the manner in which each of these parcels was so meticulously tailored to the individuals to whom they were sent has been touched upon in the novel’s reviews as well as summarised in various online plot breakdowns. But what truly drives the ending is the underlying motivation to the story: that of old grievances, failure of justice to be served, and the horrified protagonist’s/antagonist’s bitter convictions that the traditional systems in place for our detectives to solve crimes and bring the guilty to justice are dysfunctional to the point where they are no longer viable or are even actively being stifled by corruption, preventing them from rendering the correct verdicts in order to put the appropriate people away for their crimes. My personal reason for why I found the novel’s conclusion so effective in terms of balancing wow factor provided by clever plotting and actually powerful and impactful human drama, is that throughout the course of the story, we have witnessed Detective Judith Lee’s early mistakes, as well as her subsequent struggles within the culture of her police force. The cursory failures in the early portions of the novel would eventually evolve into crimes that were intentionally covered up by a subset of higher-ranking officials as well as a few of her own colleagues. As a result of this, the reader finds herself forcefully propelled through the climax of the book, which not only serves as an adequate conclusion to the central plotlines of the story but also functions as a powerful statement regarding the detectival systems currently in place, as well as their sometimes cathartically brutal means of forcing individuals to inevitably confront the far-reaching effects of their own mistakes as well as the systemic corruption that continues to exist within their respective organizations.

Oddie Coleman · Answer

This discussion has caused me to think more about the saying "revenge is a dish best served cold." This story has served it up to us frozen solid. Unfortunately, we end up choking on the ice. Perhaps the best idea is to never serve it up.

Kendall Thompson · Answer

It’s also possible to look at this through the eyes of the side character (the friend to the protagonist). That character is trying to pull the protagonist back from the brink throughout the story, and his failed final plea to the protagonist in the ending is a key point. The ending of the story happens when the protagonist rejects human connection in order to complete his mission. He has chosen the abstract concept of ‘settling the score’ over a living, breathing person who is offering him a lifeline. That choice crystallizes his fate. Once he has completed his revenge, his identity has become his entire world and he cannot have a relationship with that identity – he can only perform it. Once the performance is over there is no person underneath. The friend walks away from the protagonist tears in his eyes. That is the last thread to normality in the protagonist’s life being cut. The protagonist is then free to complete his goal but he is also free floating in an existential void. The ending of the story is a consequence of the protagonist’s choice – absolute freedom and absolute isolation. He has created a prison for himself and the door is wide open but there is nothing for him to go back to.

Deborah Hamilton · Answer

I was pondering other stories of revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo ends rather bittersweetly for Edmond Dantès, as he can find some sort of redemption, or at least semi-redemption, in the end. This story ‘Three Reasons’ has taken a completely opposite tone and view of the whole topic of revenge. Instead of ending with some sort of redemption or happy ending for the protagonist, there is none. He doesn’t save a child, and he doesn’t donate his ill-gotten gains to charity, for example. Instead, he just stops. The story has said that the three reasons were the map to take him on the journey, but the journey was through a sewer. He reached the end of his journey, and yes, he stinks. The ending shows the protagonist smelling the odor of corruption on himself, realizing that there is no baptism that can wash that off of him. It is a very harsh view of humanity, but a very clear and tight story that holds true to that extreme view.

Robert Guascoine · Answer

Note that in the final scene of the play, weather is almost always mentioned; and rather than simply be raining, it is frequently described as a cold, draining rain. This is the final emotional state of the characters: the fire of vengeance has gone out and they are left with a damp, chilly misery that seeps into their bones. The reasons for the ending of the play of course are the three reasons for the fire in the first place: anger, action, and destruction. The fuel for the fire has run out, and the fire has died. The environmental moisture (the reality of what they’ve done) rushes in to find them waterlogged and heavy. It’s not dramatic. It’s soggy and tired. It’s not even dull after a long period of time. It’s the feeling of having had a long, lingering illness, as opposed to a sudden, violent death. And perhaps it’s even more depressing in that it’s not clean and over; rather it’s a slow, damp, miserable awareness that this is your life now. The drama has gone out of their lives; the damp remains forever.

Howie Newton · Answer

It’s been represented as a collapse having to happen, of a tremendous structure, the frame of which was made up of all the lies, manipulations and controlled aggression the protagonist resorted to in his or her quest for the object of their desire. That structure, which looked for all the world like a house of cards, a flimsy edifice, actually was a towering steel monolith, which stood for as long as was required for it to. And when it did eventually collapse, as inevitably it did, down it came in a pile of rubble. But the structure was never intended to be a permanent abode. The three reasons outlined in the story for its collapse were the foundation upon which the whole edifice was constructed, and that foundation, as have been outlined, were grief and rage, two of the most unstable of materials, to be used as a basis for anything. The end, of the story, of this structure, was that the protagonist(s) walked out of the resulting rubble, alive but with nothing but the wreckage of their own making to surround them. The three reasons for the collapse were the why of the story’s structure, the motivation for all that had transpired, the reason for all the pain and the heartache, the building of this tremendous structure to reach for a revenge that was all-consuming, the reason for it all being that the structure in question was a siege engine. And you cannot live in a siege engine. They are used to destroy the walls of castles in order to conquer and then, having achieved that end, one is left standing in the empty space thus created, surrounded by nothing but the empty space, with no walls to protect one from the sun, from the rain, from the cold. The ending of the story, of this tremendous edifice, is of the protagonist(s) standing in that empty space, realizing that they are, quite literally, homeless.

Joan Lai · Answer

It’s also a very good lesson in narrative economy. One need not have a hero jump off a bridge or become a hermit to get across the point of a story. The telling is in the minute details of how this person lives in this end of life. How they don’t answer the phone because they don’t know the number, AND they don’t expect any calls from people who would matter. They make their coffee through ritual. Not because they want it. The outside world goes on in full color and noise while this person sits in a cold, dark, silent room. It’s the three reasons for why this happened or why this is that were negative in that they were all about taking something away (a life, a love, justice). The story shows that in the end the act of taking away will also take away the taker of things. The story of this person’s life has been the subtraction of things from their life one by one. And in the end we are only left with the outline of a life that once was. The story is told by tracing that outline. Not by what happens but by what doesn’t happen. The phone doesn’t ring. The person doesn’t smile. The rain continues to fall.

Why Does The Ending Of Three Reasons For Revenge Happen?

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