Posted by Ai Samurai on September 21, 19102 at 15:35:56:

Do you think that Ambrose (or the narrator) ever resolves the story, ever reaches the denouement?

In the story, the narrator says, "A long time ago we should have ped the apex of Freitag's Triangle and made brief work of the denouement; the plot doesn't rise by meaningful steps but winds upon itself, digresses, retreats, hesitates, sighs, collapses, expires. The climax of the story must be its protagonist's discovery of a way to get through the funhouse. But he has found none, may have ceased to search."

I agree that the story of Amrbose in Ocean City does twist itself seemingly without rhyme or reason, but does the conflict - whatever it may be - ever resolve itself? I don't know; Ambrose escapes the funhouse and goes home in the last paragraphs, but are all loose ends tied? As written, he will create the convention - "construct funhouses" - for others, using his own imagination and astuteness, but... he would rather fall into normal convention as just another lover "for whom funhouses are designed." Is the conflict resolved?

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