In the final scene, Ray finds his son Robbie alive and well with his grandparents, all of them having survived the destruction against miraculous odds. Many viewers criticized the scene for being unrealistic, and thought it was an addition made by Steven Spielberg, who typically ends his films on a sentimental note. What few people realize is that the source novel also ends in a similar fashion. In an attempt to get his wife to safety, the unnamed narrator is briefly separated from her. He later learns that the Martians have decimated a series of villages, including the narrator's home town, and he is lead to believe that his wife is most likely among the casualties. When he returns to the ruins of his village at the end, he is surprised to find that his street and house have been miraculously spared, and his wife is alive and well, showing the capricious nature of the destruction.

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