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This paper examines to analyze open-ending method in Henry James' Novels, especially in The Portrait of Lady. To close the novel James employs two methods. One is a series of staged farewell scenes Within each of these farewells, the heroine Isabel Archer discovers herself through experience, and she chooses a future that defines the ending of the novel. The other is the appended scene between Henrietta and Goodwood which achieves an artistic distance from the emotional intensity of Isabel's last encounter and provides an overview of the preceding events, just as an epilogue. But instead of closing off the issues, it opens them out once again. All these methods are to represent the illusion that life continues indefinitely.