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Do y'all think Wilhelm ends up turning his life around?

>> No.22424383
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>y'all
this isn't twitter

>> No.22424450

>>22424383
Filtered

>> No.22424452

>>22424331
Hey, I just read this! And no, like Don Draper following him, I found the story to be a lens into one person's endlessly narcotic personality that goes through cynical hours of euphoria and depression, with no hope of escape.

>> No.22424453

>>22424452
>narcotic
Meant neurotic. Forgive me lit, I have failed you.
>ho

>> No.22424545

>>22424452
I'm on the same page. Just finished it. The ending where he's bawling at someone else's funeral... for himself I think drives this point home, and the conversation with his wife, seemingly using his love for his kids as a convenience when it can fuel his argument or self-pity, abandoning responsibility for his own problems and shifting the burden onto his wife and dad. It's hard to tell if it's really his fault though since he's just hopelessly naive and romantic and his father doesn't seem to really love him, and I got the vibe his father didn't love him even before he threw his life away... what did we think of his relationship with his father? Who was in the wrong?