My Reviews on The Sense of an Ending

Here is the link of the worksheet of The Sense of an Ending

http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2014/02/the-sense-of-ending-julian-barnes.html

Here are my views as given below.

The Sense of an Ending

Here I am giving my general views about The Sense of an Ending as Barnes fiction is also foregrounded in psychological realism and his themes are serious poignant and we can say that Heart-felt. He frequently addresses the nature of love, particularly its dark side, exploring humankind’s capacity for jealousy, obsession and infidelity.

 In the novel The Sense of an Ending the title plays vital role as the title itself suggests that the sense of an ending means here the question arises in our mind that whose ending is this? and secondly we can also say that according to the sense an individual can interpret the ending of this novel because here in the novel Julian Barnes has left us in thinking at the end of the novel therefore as per my reading it can be said that the ending of the novel is not clearly given or Barnes has deliberately done this to make reader thinking.

The Sense of an Ending is about the person’s memory in youthful days. The novella is divided into two divisions as they are entitled as Part-1 and Part-2.The first part begins with four intellects arrogant Friends. We are told two out of four. The first one is Tony Webster, who is the narrator of the story. While on the other hand the second one is Adrian the most talented and intellectual among four. When they were in the last year of the college, a boy killed himself getting a girl pregnant.

Thus the sense of an Ending is not just the person’s story; it is a story of a network of relationships between Tony Webster and Veronica but whose ending is this! That we cannot understand clearly till the end of the novel.

Here I want to give reply about the question of ’Blood Money’ so here it can be interpreted that why does Veronica say ‘Blood Money’? Because there are two persons who are responsible for Adrian’s suicide they are Sarah and Tony Webster according to Veronica. Due to Sarah Adrian committed suicide as he makes her pregnant and another reason can also be given is that Veronica thinks that Tony Webster is responsible as he writes letter to Adrian.so the letter causes damage. Therefore Veronica thinks that Tony Webster is responsible for the suicide of Adrian. Hence we may say that she calls that money as ‘Blood Money’.

So these are my views about The Sense of an Ending.