Julian Barnes' Man Booker prize winning novel 'The sense of an ending' ends like this.
"There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest."
The sense of an ending is rather a philosophical mystery. A careful, peace loving young man, his awkward intelligent school mate, a mysterious young woman, her mother or 'the mother' and an unplanned baby who grows. There, you solved everything.
Sense of the ending starts as the memoir of Tony Webster, a retiree who had lived a peaceful life, a peaceful marriage and a calm divorce. He remembers his old school mate Adrian and the incidents leading to his mysterious death. Intelligent and genuinely serious, Adrian was a class apart from his other friends. Their friendship is broken the senior year in college when Adrian wanted to date a girl Tony had some history with. Later Tony finds out that Adrian had committed suicide. He tries to reason with it philosophically and moves on with his life.
Its only until a letter arrives in his peaceful retirement that he begins to ponder the no so peaceful memories. Veronica, whom Tony had known as a mysterious manipulator arrives with an air of a victim, and she blames Tony for everything, though she never actually reveals what Tony had done.
Adrian could not assume the responsibility of his actions and killed himself, Veronica was betrayed by everyone else, the mother lived a sad life, and Tony had remained blissfully unaware.
"There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest."
The sense of an ending is rather a philosophical mystery. A careful, peace loving young man, his awkward intelligent school mate, a mysterious young woman, her mother or 'the mother' and an unplanned baby who grows. There, you solved everything.
Sense of the ending starts as the memoir of Tony Webster, a retiree who had lived a peaceful life, a peaceful marriage and a calm divorce. He remembers his old school mate Adrian and the incidents leading to his mysterious death. Intelligent and genuinely serious, Adrian was a class apart from his other friends. Their friendship is broken the senior year in college when Adrian wanted to date a girl Tony had some history with. Later Tony finds out that Adrian had committed suicide. He tries to reason with it philosophically and moves on with his life.
Its only until a letter arrives in his peaceful retirement that he begins to ponder the no so peaceful memories. Veronica, whom Tony had known as a mysterious manipulator arrives with an air of a victim, and she blames Tony for everything, though she never actually reveals what Tony had done.
Adrian could not assume the responsibility of his actions and killed himself, Veronica was betrayed by everyone else, the mother lived a sad life, and Tony had remained blissfully unaware.
