"The First Seven Years"

"The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud

Wow the end was an amazing surprise. I didn't see it coming, that Sobel had been in love with the Shoemakers daughter during the whole story. He left his job, because he realized he was in love with her, and can't be together. Than Feld, agreed for Sobel to talk to his daughter Miriam. Sobel is has with hope again and returns to work for the shoemaker as his right hand man. I was really trying to predict the ending to this story, like I do in movies, but I guess surprises can happen at any time. That is what life is about.