Pulp Fiction ending explained

What happens

The film ends in the diner where it began. Jules talks the robbers down and spares them, then walks out with Vincent. Because the order is shuffled, you now see this scene after Jules has already been changed.

The last image

Jules and Vincent walk out of the diner together, one transformed and the other unchanged.

Two readings

1 · A real miracleJules was spared for a reason, and mercy is how he answers it.

2 · Only luckVincent's shrug may be right, and Jules simply chooses to believe.

What it says

The ending shows a man deciding what his survival means. The film never says whether it was miracle or luck. By placing this scene last, it makes Jules's choice, not chance, the moral centre.