This tale of Hans and the Miller ends in the Miller’s triumph: the Miller gets the honorable position of chief mourner at Hans’s funeral. As seen by the Miller’s comment about his broken wheelbarrow, he feels no guilt regarding Hans’s death. The Miller receives no punishment for his wrongdoing, and Hans receives no justice. Furthermore, although the Miller is suggesting that
he is the one who suffered for being generous, it’s clear that he never was generous nor is he truly suffering now—Hans was the one who was unflinchingly generous at every turn and paid for that selflessness with his life.