This novel consists of three primary sections that are framed by a prologue and an epilogue. |
Like a funeral, an epilogue mitigates an annihilating ending with deliquescent anticlimax. |
He leaves the house with the curse of his father, but in the epilogue to the play, his family accepts his decision. |
This prologue masquerading as an epilogue does not provide the expected closure, but instead another opening into the text. |
An epilogue wonders anxiously how the audience have liked the play, assuring them it was intended only to please. |
I always had an epilogue to the book, but originally it was my own epilogue. |