Let first state this. No man should spend a week with a young 11 year old, without her parents consent. Or even with.
The main character is a manipulator. A liar. And he is very unstable. Yet his girl-friend not leaves him, and shows him affection, and even really cares, surprises him. So why, he need to be with that young girl? What does she gives him?
What is frustrating many things are just not clear. The story of the brother, why he has to lie about his wife leaving him. It seems he has no children, somebody that looks up to him?
The girl is getting slowly in her adolescence, but has no evolution yet, she looks like a child. Yes at home she not gets much attention, but we not see her really mistreated, beating or anything like that.
She likes the attention of this older man, that she trust, and he makes her escape her boring life and makes her probably special. SO she gets a crush on him, like girls can have for an older guy, in real life often their teacher.
But the main character, who seems a nice person, is in fact an egoist. He uses her. Never it seems in a sexual way,but his intentions are not clear. On several occasions he touches her. A man should NOT touch a girl that is not related, this way, even if is not in a sexual matter. If he would have spend this time, knowing everything with my daughter, is something I could not stand.
Again, what I not understand is his satisfaction. He had a wife, he HAS a girl-friend that seems to care for real, he NOT wants to be the good Samaritan. He say the girl she can kick him when he is in a retirement home? Why? Because the girl think they have a platonic love-affair that cannot be answered? Or did he abuse her at the end? Or because the love she felt could not be consumed, and with him leaving her, is more desperate then before she met him?
One thing is clear, all he got is the girl confused at the end. The love making went to another, there was nothing at the end for her. He just messed her up, and why needed to be with this young girl, is not clear. As his relation with his father, now dead did not seem satisfying either, did he then just had the need to play a better dad himself? Giving the girl affection(and receiving it), he never had from his dad himself? This would make the whole story much more innocent then.
The main character is a manipulator. A liar. And he is very unstable. Yet his girl-friend not leaves him, and shows him affection, and even really cares, surprises him. So why, he need to be with that young girl? What does she gives him?
What is frustrating many things are just not clear. The story of the brother, why he has to lie about his wife leaving him. It seems he has no children, somebody that looks up to him?
The girl is getting slowly in her adolescence, but has no evolution yet, she looks like a child. Yes at home she not gets much attention, but we not see her really mistreated, beating or anything like that.
She likes the attention of this older man, that she trust, and he makes her escape her boring life and makes her probably special. SO she gets a crush on him, like girls can have for an older guy, in real life often their teacher.
But the main character, who seems a nice person, is in fact an egoist. He uses her. Never it seems in a sexual way,but his intentions are not clear. On several occasions he touches her. A man should NOT touch a girl that is not related, this way, even if is not in a sexual matter. If he would have spend this time, knowing everything with my daughter, is something I could not stand.
Again, what I not understand is his satisfaction. He had a wife, he HAS a girl-friend that seems to care for real, he NOT wants to be the good Samaritan. He say the girl she can kick him when he is in a retirement home? Why? Because the girl think they have a platonic love-affair that cannot be answered? Or did he abuse her at the end? Or because the love she felt could not be consumed, and with him leaving her, is more desperate then before she met him?
One thing is clear, all he got is the girl confused at the end. The love making went to another, there was nothing at the end for her. He just messed her up, and why needed to be with this young girl, is not clear. As his relation with his father, now dead did not seem satisfying either, did he then just had the need to play a better dad himself? Giving the girl affection(and receiving it), he never had from his dad himself? This would make the whole story much more innocent then.