Are we have a sense of Ending?

Booker Prize winner novel by Julian Barnes is a part of our syllabus and after completing the discussion in class, here is given a task by our professor Dr. Dilip Barad. 

Regarding this novel I would like to express my view about these four points: 
1. Title
2. Prose Style
3. Narrator
4. Over all Theme

1.Title of the Novel:

The writer has carefully chosen the title of the novel from the book of Frank Kermode.

In the novel there are "3 Endings":
A. Tony's life is ending because of his old age. 
B. Changing the understanding and thinking about self, self-revealation happens. 
C. Two lives ending by suicide: Robson and Adrian. 

So by this way the title is appropriate to the novel. 

2.Prose Style: 

  • Writer has used post-modern writing technique.
  • He has used "diary" as an object to tell his story.
  • History is in the middle of the over all theme.
  • Writer has used a retired man to Narrate the story.
  • And the story is bouncing between 'truth' and 'reality'. 
3. & 4. Unreliable Narrator and Over all Theme:

"The novel is not about what we 'do' but it is about how we 'remember' what we have done."

In the story both the part of the novel is narrated by Tony. From his diary we came to know what was happend to him and others. But diary writing is not the tool related to truth. It is something related to our emotions and feelings. So whatever Tony has realised or felt that he has written. Which is not reliable in a sense. So the over all them is how Tony remembers his past, not what had happened actually. 

It is as per my understanding. 
Thank you. 

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