The Sorrows of Young Werther was a hard book to read, not in a bad way, it was hard to read because you really could see suffering in its purest form, many people say this book is bad because Werther had a chance to change after moving out of town and finding another woman he liked there, but I'm going to play devil's advocate and few people see that this book is about the irrational stubbornness of the extremely nostalgic man, and that stubbornness is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to withdraw from someone when he values and misses the old times a lot, a problem I see in this book is to show little Charlotte's point of view, because I believe it really was one of the most suffering situations inside her mind but it shows as if she just thinking about Albert and suddenly feeling indifferent to Werther and in that I think there's a flaw.
However, it is something depressing and desperate, this stubbornness that affects people like Werther so much and I would say that I have a little to some extent, but the ending in which Werther commits suicide, was something inevitable as he says, in the depth of longing and sadness that he felt he was either going to kill himself or one of the two of the couple and as he truly cared more for others than himself he took the final step out of this existence at the thought of knowing that Lotte loved him.
Please, say no to the Werther effect, I know it's the most beautiful thing dying for love, but it don't need to be this way sometimes.