The end of Autumn Chrysanthemum is a happy scene of great coming together amidst the conflict between different ethnic groups. The children from the military dependents villages used the fraternal method of financial gifts and peace mediation (in Wu Chin-fa's eyes, the children from the military dependents villages had the most resources in those years), to smooth over the conflicts between Fukienese-Taiwanese and Hakka-Taiwanese factions, and resolve a scene of bloody conflict.
「秋菊」結尾，是非常「大團圓」式的歡喜收場﹘﹘在族群的衝突中，來自眷村的小孩，以賠錢及勸解人心的「大哥式」手法（吳錦發眼中，在當年那個時代，眷村小孩的資源最多）安撫發生衝突的閩客兩派，化解了一場流血衝突。