final post

Wendell Pfeffer

3/3/14

            After reading this book nothing has changed with Tony. He still retains the same thoughts of Veronica and Adrian when he was a young lad. When Adrian and Veronica became a couple Tony was left in distress and I don’t blame him. Like I stated in my past blog Adrian betrayed his friend by choosing Veronica over him. This shows how little I think Adrian actually cared for Tony. I actually feel really sorry for him when he had to deal with this situation I probably would have done the same thing he did maybe even worse if I knew that my “best” friend was dating the girl I loved. To be honest though Tony was a horrible match for Veronica; they weren’t a happy couple and if Adrian hadn’t intervened then who knows what would have happened. At one point though I thought that Tony permanently moved on with his life, but I was wrong. Even after forty years Tony had never forgotten one thing about Veronica, his one true love. He would keep obsessing in his mind about her over and over again to a point where I actually became sick of it. He even uses his friend’s diary as an excuse to see her again and too potentially get back with her.

            Apart from the situation Veronica and Tony had their seems to be a connection with Dostoyevsky and Adrian. Adrian and Dostoyevsky share the same gift – intelligence. They are able to see both sides of the argument with complete clarity. This can either be a good thing or a bad thing. For Dostoyevsky this gift rendered him inactive. But for Adrian it was completely different because he was able to fit well with others and make decisions. He even had some good friends, a good wife and a son. Still though I think he suffered greatly because of his intelligence, which could have been the reason for his suicide. I really doubt his suicide was because of Veronica or her pregnancy.

             I really liked this book because it gave me a first person perspective on a person’s life and the problems they faced. Many of the problems related back to me in the beginning but towards the end that started to change. I began to feel sorry for him because no matter how hard he tried he wasn’t going to get what he wanted and that was true love.