ENDING OF ENGLISH FAIRY AND REALISTIC TALES
The article deals with structural stylistic analysis of endings in British and American fairy tales. Folklore and literature works are scrutinized. The analysis of tensity in culmination and ending of a fairy tale let work out two types of absolute ending and a relative ending. The absolute ending is a standard phrase like lived happily ever after and the ending giving answer to the question set in the title. The relative ending describes only the results of a defi nite confl ict, shown in the fairy tale. Analysing changes in the characters lifestyles at the beginning and in the ending of a fairy tale the author determined the structure of equality (no considerable changes) and inequality (the character gets a just reward, which changes their life-style).