The book ends with an intimation that Charlotte may die of a broken heart: "I shall say nothing of.Charlotte's grief. The funeral is not attended by any clergy, or by Albert or Charlotte. He is buried between two linden trees that he had mentioned frequently in his letters. Werther then shoots himself in the head, but does not die until twelve hours later. Charlotte receives the request with great emotion and sends the pistols. After composing a farewell letter to be found after his death, he writes to Albert asking for his two pistols, on the pretext that he is going "on a journey". Unable to hurt anyone else or seriously consider murder, Werther sees no other choice but to take his own life. He visits her one final time, and they are both overcome with emotion after he recites to her a passage of his own translation of Ossian.Įven before that incident, Werther had hinted at the idea that one member of the love triangle – Charlotte, Albert or Werther himself – had to die to resolve the situation. She, out of pity for her friend and respect for her husband, decides that Werther must not visit her so frequently. Every day becomes a torturing reminder that Charlotte will never be able to requite his love. He then returns to Wahlheim, where he suffers still more than before, partly because Charlotte and Albert are now married.
He is not tolerated and asked to leave since he is not a nobleman. He suffers great embarrassment when he forgetfully visits a friend and unexpectedly has to face there the weekly gathering of the entire aristocratic set.
His sorrow eventually becomes so unsupportable that he is forced to leave Wahlheim for Weimar, where he makes the acquaintance of Fräulein von B. ĭespite the pain it causes him, Werther spends the next few months cultivating a close friendship with them both. Werther falls in love with Charlotte despite knowing beforehand that she is engaged to a man named Albert, eleven years her senior. There he meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on Garbenheim, near Wetzlar), whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. Most of The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story about a young man's extreme response to unrequited love, is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm.
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