A Sad or Happy Ending?
In the end, you are hit with the emotional weight you’ve been dreading. Peter meets Wendy as an adult who is “helpless and guilty, a big woman [with] something inside her… crying, ‘woman, woman, let go of me!’.” She feels sad that she had to grow up and abandon Peter the way his mother did. The guilt of not staying young with Peter tore her apart.
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The interaction caused Peter to cry… but not for long. Wendy’s daughter Jane was there, ready to replace Wendy. When Jane grows up, her daughter moves on, and so on. At the end of the day, there were always more children for Peter to play with. I guess in a strange way, the story had a happy ending, despite its alarming origins.