/lit/ - Literature

I finished Stoner last night. Beautiful book. But I have questions.
>What the fuck was Edith’s problem? Did she have some sort of personality disorder? Or was Williams making a commentary on the old practice of women being married off without really having much of a say in it?
>What the FUCK was Lomax’s problem? Wee he and Walker gay lovers? Was he just a psychopath?
>Is there a better depiction in literature of “the end” than the last chapter of Stoner? I nearly teared up at the end and I never get emotional from books