It felt sad, but it also felt so utterly realistic. The kids and Peeta could give her something to look forward to, but not enough to make her a 'happy person'. It was sad, and you can feel the remnant bitterness in Katniss' life when the book ended -you can feel she'll never be a 'happy' person again. Prim's death triggered a chain of events that lead to a much deeper conclusion bigger than Katniss, Snow and Prim as individual people. It also led to Snow's "irrelevant" death, since it really wasn't all about him, as a person. It also helped Katniss decide it was Peeta she needed to survive. It showed that the happy ending isn't really about Katniss on an individual level, but Panem as a whole. Coin was proving to be yet another Snow in disguise, and it all came to light when they decided to bring another round of Hunger Games. When Prim died, it gave me something else bigger to look forward to. And this brings me to why the ending was so masterful. Even if the Katniss/Snow/Coin exchange hadn't occurred, everything good was already gone with Prim's death. She was the innocent future that lied ahead. She was Katniss' only motivation, thus the reader's only motivation. First, the irritating bit: Keeping Prim alive was the whole point of Katniss volunteering. I have to say, I find the ending -while extremely irritating- also extremely masterful on Collins part. It seemed inevitable, with everyone dropping one after the other, till Gale got captured and Katniss made it to the mansion, and I was thinking, 'this is it'. This "happy ending" was the ending I was waiting to reach. Typical, expected, unfulfilling, yet relatively happy. Either we get this ending, or a typical "happily ever after" ending where Katniss eventually makes it to Snow, shoots him in the head, thus making all the other deaths count (well, 'count' in a very unsatisfying way -the rebels would have killed him anyway), with the entire country being giddy -and the end. I'm trying to think of a way to make it not happen, but in a strange, horrible way, it seems essential.
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