Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel,

it all goes round again, and here I am once more on a new phase of the journey to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King,

to determine whether or not King deserves his reputation

for having an inability to successfully land his endings.

The focus of the podcast is to examine the climax, the falling action, the resolution of the

endings to each of his novels and break it down by character themes, conflict, and plot,

to determine whether or not it meets the

criteria of being an objectively good ending. I'm also going to weigh in on whether or not I

happen to personally, subjectively like the ending. And today, we're here to discuss the ending

of desperation. Okay, so before I get to that, I want to read the Wikipedia summary so that we have a basis upon which I can build my analysis.

The novel begins with Peter and Mary Jackson, a couple driving cross-country in Peter's sister's car after visiting their friends, the Sotersons.

Kaliatragian pulls over the Jackson's on the pretext of their missing rear license plate

and arrests them for possession of marijuana after fighting a baggie in the car trunk.

Once they arrive at the desperation municipal building where the holding cells are kept,

Atragin shoots Peter in the stomach several times and leaves his body in the

doorway before dragging Mary over a dead girl's body and up the stairs to jail.

Once thrown in jail, Mary meets the Carver family, Ralph Ellen and their son, David, who tell Mary

that the girl on the stairs was their daughter, Kirsten.

Petragetian pushed her down the stairs once the family arrived at the police station, breaking her neck.

The other captive in the cells is Tom Billingsley, the town veterinarian and former councilman.

Billingsley witnessed and Trajan systematically murder murmur, murder almost every other person in the town of desperation.

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