A better future?

The end of the book is very symbolic. Throughout the whole novel, Willhelm sort of feels suffocated and trapped. The author even makes you feel sort of trapped yourself, and i felt a lot of pity for Willhelm many times. Willhelm sort of drowns after learning that he has no support from his wife, has no relationship with his kids or with his father, and has absolutely no money. He also misses his lost love with Olive. As he begins torealize that he is sort of hopeless and that he really needs to start again, he even has difficulty breathing, and starts to drown. Then, the river of people carries him along and takes him to an unknown person's funeral, and he starts weeping even though he never knew the person. The riverof people represents all his burdens, and he is drowning in those burdens, and those burdens lead him to realize that he feels completely alone, as if he were dead, and it's then when he begins to weep even though he doesn't know the guy who's being wept. This is sort of the explosion of all the burdens he has throughout the book. The book begins by introducing all the probloems Willhelm has and it ends by them getting even worse, but with Willhelm realizing that he needs a new beginning. You just hope that Willhelm's future will get better, because it apparently can't get any worse. It would be fun if the author showed this future.