The Passion

Do you think Henri is insane by the end of the book? How so?

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This is open to speculation. After falling for, and ultimately being rejected by, Villanelle, Henri retreats into his own mind, creating a world part real, part memory. In this reverie Henri is able to divest himself of hope, and instead live in a now of his own choosing. Though perhaps mad, Henri is conscious of his condition, seeing it as a product of free will. In a universe of one, Henri at last cannot be betrayed.