The Ending - necessary? (Spoilers)

I never thought about this before. She may have bluntly told him she was no longer interested in him, that she would never be interested, that she absolutely wanted nothing to do with him and that trying to get to her through Aunt Penniman or anyone else would never work (she could've written it out in a letter). Morris may have thought it was a misunderstanding and continued pursuing Catherine after the last night we saw them.

There are other possibilities, such as Morris getting a taste of his own medicine potentially could have sent him into a rage and/or on a path to seek revenge for how Catherine dangled his "pot of gold" in front of him and took it away (even though he dangled love and happiness in front of her, first, and took it away). I don't know what a female could do at that time to protect herself from harassment. I suppose she could hire people to help with that. An extreme option would be to set up a business for him -- one which could be run by other people so that he didn't get his delicate hands dirty or callused. This could potentially get him off her back. Of course he could still be looking for the next unsuspecting heiress to prey on.

Oh, yes there was definitely revenge! And how sweet it was! One of my favorite endings of all time. But, what else could she have done to make sure he got the message that he couldn't return with "the same lies" and unaltered script? Morris would now realize that although the scenery in his little play hadn't changed, the main character had!