Friday, July 9, 2010

Ambiguity

The end of the novel is ambiguous. Although Brett says on page 247 that she's "going back to Mike," she and Jake seem to be having a lot of fun together in the last few pages. I can't tell at the end if Jake and Brett are about to "hook up" or if they're just having another one of their flirting episodes. The fact that Brett had Jake travel to Madrid on a whim is really annoying. That part also contributes to the ambiguity. Did she really ask him top come to Madrid because she was in trouble? I don't think she did. I think that she is reconsidering her love for Jake, and she wanted to test his love for her. She truly has come full circle from "Don't touch me" to kissing him in her room.

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