Her quest for revenge has taken everything from her, even the only tie she has left to Joel, whose death was the very motivation for her revenge in the first place. This is the song that she tries to play having lost everything else in her life: her friends, her love interest, her child, what little remained of her innocence and moralityвЂ¦ and she canвЂ™t play it. The first thing Joel plays to her isВ Future DaysВ by Pearl Jam, a song she later tries to play when she finds a guitar in a theatre, getting two lines in before choking up with emotion вЂ“ illustrating how much the song means to her, the lyrics having found new, more literal meaning in the light of JoelвЂ™s death. The guitar comes to symbolise their relationship, and when Joel is murdered it is a way by which she can reconnect with him from beyond the grave. It is very clear what Neil Druckman and the team at Naughty Dog were going for here the guitar is established early in the game as a way Joel wants to connect with Ellie, to teach her something like a father would with a daughter. Having lost the last thing she had of her adoptive father she leaves the guitar leant against the windowsill and wanders off back into the wilderness, truly alone. She attempts to play but finds that with her new injuries she canвЂ™t make some of the chords to play the song Joel taught her. Ellie wanders around the farmhouse dejectedly until she finds the guitar Joel had given her to teach her to play years ago. She returns to find Dina вЂ“ her girlfriend вЂ“ and the baby they were going to raise together have left.

She is emotionally and physically scarred from the confrontation, having lost the top two joints of the pinky and ring fingers on her left hand in the fight. So the final scene of The Last of Us Part 2 goes something like this (I wasnвЂ™t kidding about spoilers): Ellie returns to her farm having completed(?) her quest for revenge against the person who killed Joel, her adoptive father figure. SPOILERS! Oh so many spoilers! This article will address the ending of The Last of Us 2, and with so much of the gameвЂ™s attraction centering on its plot I would highly recommend coming back to this article at a later date if you are planning on playing this game.

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