![]() What we now want to know is whether or not he can ever be happy again, whether he can ever lift the sense of guilt from his shoulders. He has been forced to admit that he is gay the fact that he couldn't before has had disastrous consequences. Where does that leave us? Quite simply, it leaves us wondering whether or not David is going to be OK. David is left alone, drinking and tormenting himself, but there is nothing that he can do. What's so sad is that all this has already happened. Hella has left David and it is unclear if she'll ever be able to have a normal relationship again. Giovanni is going to be executed, or perhaps already has been. Now at the close of the book, very little has changed except that we, the reader, now know David's story. After that, no matter what happened, the story has the air of tragedy: we know that things are going to end badly. ![]() Though we didn't know the details in the beginning, David announces that today is the day that Giovanni will be executed. ![]() The second case is where we learn what happened. He's drinking and feeling depressed and talking with the caretaker. In the first case, David is doing relatively little. Throughout the book, we've been shuttling back and forth between the present tense (David, alone in his room in the south of France) and the past (David with Giovanni and then with Hella). ![]()
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