7/1/09

This ending was very unsatisfying to me, we are left with no true answers, as either the answers that we got from Auster were questioned by Quinn or we never had them at all. and as for the narrator, we are completely clueless as who it is. We are left to wonder where Quinn is, and where the food was coming from. I continue to feel bad for Quinn in the end, his past year has really amounted to nothing, as everything that he had consumed his life with had been a failure. He had truly disappeared in the world except to Auster, who could not reach him.
It is interesting to see the time change, even though we do not know days we know the time of year based on the weather. The fact that it ends with a winter scene we are left with a calming feeling even if the ending contradicts the weather. The white blanket makes it seem as if everything is and will be okay, and it is almost like a new beginning. Which could be, considering how Quinn is known to stop his life and start a new. For all we know he has completely started a new identity, and is once again writing perhaps a new genre. This novel has become more of a mystery, rather than a detective novel, but it really only seems fitting for Quinn to be the main character of a mystery novel because that was the genre that he loved so much.