How does Craig get better so quickly?
This is everyone’s chief criticism of It’s Kind of A Funny Story; they feel that the ending is too tidy. My argument is that Craig didn’t get “better” as in “better–his depression is cured.” He got better as in “better–I’m not going to consider suicide again.” He sorted out some things in his life like I did.
Some people feel that the ending of It’s Kind of A Funny Story is too tidy, that Craig “gets better” too soon. They’d like to know how he “gets better” so quickly. My response is that Craig didn’t get “better” as in “better — his depression is cured.” He got better as in “better — he’s not going to consider suicide again.” He sorted out some things in his life like I did. “The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.
