Life is so much better when you're in love, and as you turn the pages of this novel, you feel it. And, because of that, and because love makes you happy - releasing all kinds of awesome chemicals - you associate your beloved with almost everything, and almost everything seems and feels better. The way your very insides change - not just when you're with that person, but how everything in life has a more ecstatic, elated feel to it, because the person you love is always in the back of your mind. ".the moment of absolute trust and absolute pleasure, the moment when it was impossible to quarrel because it was impossible to think." The highs that are the state of being emphatically in love are conveyed beautifully in this novel. "But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. The existential struggle of the individual the selfish power of our personalized emotions in our ultimate search for love in its many forms. The novel is also about life, and death, and fate, and God, and all the struggles associated with these things. Love in all it's splendor and horror, Greene gets it. It is in extremes: it either loves or hates. The love depicted in the novel is not a halfway love (is there such a thing as a halfway love?).
And you can't really have love without hate, can you? Love and hate of another love and hate of self love and hate of God - or of his nonexistence - are the major themes. And what is more ridiculous than love? The End of the Affair shows the nuances, complexities, depths and strengths of love how serious, dynamic, and mighty it is, while also showing how selfish it is.
It seems that most good books show, in some way, how ridiculous we all are. I read it at just the right time and the impact was healthy, significant, and powerful. But a relationship did recently end for me, and that kind of thing is painful, and tough to deal with, as you probably know.) This novel helped me through all that: By channeling the thoughts, emotions, and lessons from the book, I was able to understand myself and my situation better. (No, I didn't have an affair with a married woman, heh. The End of the Affair was exactly what I needed to help me through some recent difficulties in my personal life. I was overtaken, absorbed, and transfixed in a whirlwind of emotion. It flipped me around and turned me upside down.
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