Escape fiction is tailored purely for entertainment. The plot is simplistic and predictable with a happy ending. The moral to the story is quite obvious and does not require understanding. Escape fiction falsifies reality the reader or viewer takes the story merely for what it is a story for entertainment. The soap opera The Young and the Restless is an example of escape fiction that deals with the everyday life of so called ordinary people. Viewers use this soap opera as a guideline of how their own life should be; which causes a distorted view of reality and has profound negative influences on the viewers.
The problems that characters on this soap opera have are resolved very quickly, so it le