not sure what to make of it....

Bri Fowle
I am really very confused by the ending of the book. For whatever reason, Quinn becomes completely obsessed with the Stillmans, except for the fact that he never once approaches them or sees them at all. He hides in an alley next to the house and watches them vigilantly. He basically turns into Stillman, obsessing over the smallest thing and trying to overanalyze every thing that happens or doesn’t happen. After a couple months, he finally gets up and expects everything to be as it used to be. Instead, he is left without any money, no house, no food, no clothes, and no possessions whatsoever. He goes back to the Stillmans house and obsessively writes in his red notebook, naked and laying on the floor. He becomes unaware and uncaring of everything around him, even about the food that mysteriously appeared next to him. The case that he took made him pretend to be someone else and consequently Quinn disappeared from the inside out, until he just disappeared entirely. The end of the book made me feel completely unsatisfied. I feel like I just read a book that left me in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but questions. The case wasn’t even really solved, Virginia and Peter Stillman disappeared, the check bounced, and I have no idea who that person was in the end. I wonder what the person at the end meant when he said that he was no longer friends with Paul Auster. To me that made no sense because the author was Paul Auster and how can he not be friends with himself? It really makes me wonder if the author and the character are the same or separate.