The next part of "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes brought forth other entertaining scenarios. He finally gets as far as he wants with Veronica but ironically enough, he gets there after they break up. In my opinion, Tony did nothing wrong yet Veronica treats him as if he is the devil. To be honest, I think she is delusional and that her family is strange so I felt bad for Tony since he was subject to their judgment. Any person put in that position gets stressed out.
On the notes of Adrian's suicide, I actually agreed with Tony's mother when she said he may have done it because he is too clever. I think that a correlation can be drawn between this and "Notes from the Underground." In "Notes from the Underground", the narrator sees both sides of everything so he renders himself inactive. I believe that since Adrian is so intelligent, he, in effect, did the same thing. He is brilliant and almost too brilliant. Seeing both sides of things would be annoying in my opinion.
I am still thoroughly enjoying reading this novel and still think of it as my favorite thus far.
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