Molly
What Remains of Edith Finch – Story and Ending Explained
Molly’s story, the first you play in What Remains of Edith Finch, is both one of the strangest and hardest to decipher in the game. Her death is told through her journal that Edith finds on her cupboard, and sees her locked in her room after been sent to bed without dinner. As she attempts to seek food, she becomes a cat that chases a bird, an owl that swoops after rabbits, a shark that hunts a seal, and a sea monster that eats people. She returns to her room where she is writing about what has happened to her while the monster waits for her under her bed.
The most likely explanation is that some of what she ate (berries, toothpaste, gerbil food) poisoned her and she began to hallucinate these strange happenings, wrote about it in her journal, and died from the effects. Some other theories includes the suggestion that it was a fever dream and she died in her sleep, or that she went looking for food outside her window and fell to her death. However, since she was able to write about what happened to her in her diary, it is more likely that she hallucinated becoming those animals and that she died soon after writing about it.
