as well as in our entertainment. British scholar Carl Trueman bemoans the American obsession with happy endings. In his book Fools Rush in Where Monkeys Fear to Tread, he writes: I remember my jaw hitting the floor some years ago when I watched a Disney version of Notre Dame de Paris where the Hunchback does not die but lives happily ever after.… The point of the story of Quasimodo is that the guy with the hump dies at the end and it’s all terribly sad. My wife is meant to cry, and I am meant to
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