His intensity borders on a mental collapse.
It is in the last part of the novel that the reader is aware of a disconnectedness that emerges for Jerone he looks for his former lover and feels detached from the life he has returned to. I was amazed to discover that about a third of the novel is given over to the boy's experience when he returns to Amsterdam after the war is ended. The boy's love intensifies after Walt leaves the small village where he has been posted in Holland. Eventually it is clear that he has been a willing partner with Walt and has fallen in love with him. What the boy needs to do is to let go of the internal instincts that he has been given by his society/culture. And some of them flirted and encouraged me, but not with the magnetism and persistance of Walt. Early in my own childhood I was attracted to some of the older boys in the small town where I lived. What moved me in the film was the way Jerone was drawn to Walt and the boy's fear. I had trouble ordering it - trouble communicating with American Express, but I persisted and the book came yesterday. I saw the movie several times, and came across a copy of the book through Barnes and Nobles.
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