Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria closes out his Yale course on Cervantes with the final chapters of Don Quixote. He traces Cervantes' humor, which lets readers see their own folly reflected in the mad hero, and examines the novel's pattern of repeated homecomings, arguing that the ending doubles back on the beginning. Don Quixote's defeat by the Knight of the White Moon, really a version of himself, becomes a form of self-acceptance. Gonzalez Echevarria shows how Cervantes lets reality become fictionalized within Part II itself, as Sancho's remarks at the last inn acknowledge that Don Quixote already belongs among literature's great fictions. He walks through the novel's three-part closure: defeat, recovered sanity, and death, explaining why death provides the resolution readers need. The lecture ends with a look at how Unamuno, Borges, and Picasso each reimagined Don Quixote afterward, extending Cervantes' character well beyond his own novel.