There's this thing I like to do sometiems that I call the Owl Creek Bridge Game. I thought for sure I had mentioned this before here on Mastodon but it doesn't show up in a search of my posts. The idea is that you take a work of fiction and add the unexaminable assumption that the viewpoint character dies at some point in the story without realizing it, after which the rest of the story is either a dying dream or the afterlife. And you try to figure out where in the story this happens.

@CarlMuckenhoupt Heart attack when seeing Mr Darcy swim in the lake.

The old female pawnbroker kills *him* with an axe to prove she transcends the moral law.

@victorgijsbers Please understand that coming up with audacious reinterpretations is just the first step in the Owl Creek Bridge Game. The real fun is in finding supporting evidence in the text.
@CarlMuckenhoupt Ah, yes, you have to reread and prove!