Medieval writers were much better at starting dreams than finishing them. Consider the problems of ending in medieval dream narratives.

In that they deal with bereavement, both Pearl and Chaucers Book of the Duchess begin, paradoxically, writing about endings. Through dreams, the narrators play out tensions between these so-called endings  the death of a beloved (though unnamed) daughter in Pearl and Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster in The Book of the Duchess  and the difficulty that the bereaved suffer in coming to terms with the notion of a new beginning for themselves and for their loved ones, in a separate, divine realm….(short extract)