Importance of The Poem

Denouement is not only the name of the hotel in the novel, but also the process of untying a knot, or "unraveling a mysterious story, such as the lives of the Baudelaire orphans" (p. 176). The denouement is the moment when all the mysteries of a story a revealed, and according to Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril serves as the denouement of the entire Series of Unfortunate Events.