Part 1
This account of Stan and Charlie finding a friendship and then having circumstance pull them apart again is sad in the inevitability of it. “Society” said their friendship couldn’t work, and society acted to prove itself right.
Maybe many people read themselves into characters that are outsiders, do people generally overstate our own troubles or is that just my anxiety at work? It is Stan the loner that is bullied at school that connect with rather than Charlie the traveller – looking through Stan’s eyes we are attracted to the confidence of Charlie, but we see there is a troubled inner life below the surface.
I have had to take it back to the library as it is reserved by anyone reader before I got to Part 2 ...
