The Phantom, Erik, lets Christine and Raoul go after Christine kisses him on the forehead, and he dies soon afterward.

Charlie has a breakdown and is hospitalized after remembering that his late Aunt Helen abused him as a child.

After a flood, the Joad family takes shelter in a barn, where Rose of Sharon, whose baby was stillborn, breastfeeds a starving stranger to save his life.

Jake Barnes rescues Lady Brett Ashley in Madrid after she leaves the young bullfighter Romero.

Henry Fleming, a young Union soldier who ran from his first battle, returns to his regiment with a head wound he got from a fleeing comrade, which others assume is a battle wound, his “red badge of courage.” In later fighting he becomes a brave flag bearer, and the novel ends with Henry feeling he has become a man, as sunlight breaks through the clouds.

Catherine Barkley dies after giving birth to a stillborn son in a Swiss hospital.

Kurtz dies on Marlow’s steamboat with the words “The horror!

Dorian Gray stabs his corrupted portrait with the knife he used to murder the painter Basil Hallward.

Maggie claims she is pregnant to secure Big Daddy’s estate for her husband Brick, and then she resolves to make the lie come true.

After a three-day chase, the white whale Moby Dick destroys the Pequod and kills Captain Ahab, who is dragged under by his own harpoon line.