Russian novels are actually famous for having open-ended endings. In fact, we don't really know what has happened or will happen to Tonya or Katenka or Zhivago's other children. We don't really know what will happen to Tanya, Zhivago and Lara's daughter. We mean, after all, Zhivago himself dies before it ends, and all the stuff about his life after Lara leaves seems almost like a different novel. You could also say that Doctor Zhivago doesn't really have a conventional ending at all. His society has pressed him to declare where he stands politically, but in the end, all he cares about is living a quiet, free life. All Zhivago has ever wanted to do was live in peace and write poetry about nature and people. The most interesting thing about this poetry is how apolitical it is. Even while the world was going to hell around him, he never lost his passion for writing poetry. The actual prose of the novel ends with Misha Gordon and his buddy Dudorov meeting Zhivago's long-lost daughter during World War II.īut even though these are both "endings" to the book, Pasternak made a clear choice to end Doctor Zhivago by showing us some of the poems Yuri Zhivago has worked on throughout his life. The book's main "story" could end with Zhivago's death, or maybe it could end when we find out about Lara's reported death in a concentration camp. There are a few different endings to Doctor Zhivago, depending on how you look at it.
"I shall go to the grave, and on the third day rise, And, just as rafts float down a river, To me for judgment, like a caravan of barges, The centuries will come floating from the darkness."
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