Views and Interpretations of the ending (spoilers)
The way I saw it, the decisive moment is the exchange between Jenny and her daughter. When she says that her three favourite people are her, the husband (we know her marriage is a sham) and the grandmother (we know she hates her deep down) the daughter, no fool, reacts angrily, to me signalling that it's too late - Jenny may be able to face her demons and reach some level of internal peace, but it is too late to fix her family life (in that sense, the daughter is something like the mouthpiece of truth). Therefore the scene of her gazing as the grandmother is lovingly tending to her husband is merely showing her what she's not going to have, akin to the ending scene in La Dolce Vita, as the girl, a symbol of a more wholesome life, appears and the protagonist doesn't even see her. In terms of the poem Jenny mentions, it is too late for love to envelop everything, even death. However, the people I watched it saw it in far more optimistic terms, that the daughter going to the hospital at all meant not all was lost, that there was still a way forward, however difficult, and Jenny tad taken the key first step by confronting her inner demons. I'm interested in others' views on this.
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