The sense of an Ending

Respected Sir,

The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barns. It's all about Memories. The novel known as 'psycho thriller and Memory Novel.'  The novel begins the same way it ends with the accumulation. There is unrest. There is great unrest.  Tony Webster tells the story to reader from his memory. Whole life  depends on memory and documentation.  Such literature disturbs  the  mind and lead to think about it. Life always end up with Contentment rather than Happiness. Tony said that.....

 "The Purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss."

Each individual has responsibility. Tony Webster's  decision affects so many lives. Why Adrian committed suicide ? Why Sarah ford gives money to Tony which is known as 'Blood Money' ? Why Tony thinks that Veronica behaves rudely with him?  Why all such things are happened and affect to everybody ?   Is there anyone who is responsible ? Why Tony is shocked ? Why Tony thinks that he is damaged by others ? Why Tony can't understand anything  ?

          Is there anything like responsibility ? If readers say that Veronica and 40 years old Adrian suffered from the damage then who did that permanent damage ? Why they suffer throughout their life? Do they wrong things in their life?  Who is responsible for all? Is about where responsibility lies. And to what extent something like a suicide is entirely the responsibility of the person who has done it, or there a whole chain of responsibility?   

          Life never gives the second chance to relive the past. One can just revisit the past through memory and feel remorse only. If they wish to change then even they can't change the past. Unknowingly, people become the responsible for others damage and they think that they are suffered from others as Tony thinks about himself. People have no right to give judgement on any other's life , they just be observant not judgmental.      

          Here , I share my responses of the questions :

(1)

b, a1, a2, S, V ? b = s – v^x + a¹  or  a² + v + a¹ x s = b?

Letter stands for :

B = Baby, a1 = Adrian, a2 = Anthony , S = Sarah , V= Veronica.

. b = s – v^x + a¹  The first formula doesn't give space  to Tony, and it gives more space to Adrian and Sarah in the absence of Veronica. 

a² + v + a¹ x s = b. The second does bring Tony into the equation, which is certainly the more important of the two.

Baby born as the result of damage .

(   2) Tony Webster classifiable as Unreliable Narrator :

              Tony  Webster  is telling story from his memory. And people mostly adjust the self first and then they put it the things in memory with their comfortable. So, when they narrate something s/he always the protagonist of the novel and others are villains of his/her . life.

    

                        We records the memory as we like it. Not as what actually  happen in the past. Events turns into anecdotes and things are quite different. As Tony says his own story from his perspective or from his own memory. But when he revisits his own memory with the documents thongs are totally different with the evidence. So, reader can't reliable on Tony's memory because he himself gets surprised  when he revisited his own memory.  So, this is story from Tony's perspective. Readers can't get chance to read other characters from their perspectives. So, Tony Webster is classified as unreliable Narrator of the text.

Thank you.

           

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