noun
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
My friend Michael The Girl recently sent me this link to a blog discussion of the value of the denouement because I am working on a project that begs to end slightly ambiguously.
Does anybody out there have a lil sumpin' sumpin' to say about books that end without wrapping up all of the loose ends?