How does the epigram affect this scene? Miss Prism: . . . The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

Miss Prism describes fiction as giving characters neat, morally fitting endings: good characters are happy, while bad characters are unhappy. The line humorously suggests that real life is not so orderly, which matches the idea that tidy endings are uncommon in real life. Choice C is too narrow because the epigram contrasts fiction with reality generally, not just happy endings.

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