Why there aren't any good endings for Jecka on "Class of '09: The Flip Side"?
I've been thinking about how the "no happy endings" of the flipside should mean something. And, I've gotten to the conclusion that that's kinda exactly the point.
Jecka, throughout the other games, has this clear worry about her future, and getting into college. Of course, most of this feeling comes for the HUGE pressure and verbal abuse she suffers from her dad, but it's interesting to think how someone so worried about her future, ignoring the means, just suffers.
And that reveals something about society as a whole. Don't matter how hard you try, how much of yourself you give to satisfy other's wishes ( Jecka/Dad ) you get this cruel ending. So, that kinda fits for the critism we see on the class of '09 games, even if it hurts seing a character, who you get emotionally bonded, being used as an example about how society can be fucked up.
The system forces us to chase this idealistic version of a future, going to college, good grades, good behaviour, and that's because they sell to us that this can bring happiness. Who can make us sure of that? That white guy that did all of this with financial support of his family, priviledged since his birth? I don't think so.
Real people don't get a good/happy ending. This is the Flip Side.
A lack of good endings could simbolize that. But that's just my POV. Idk. < 3