I can see him being really happy, for the first time.A t 28, the author and illustrator Alice Oseman recently achieved what so many of her peers cannot: she bought a flat. I'm really hope we get to see a year of Charlie's life at university, maybe in Chapter Nine, if Alice writes it, or some mini comics. It would be kind of unrealistic for Charlie to really fundamentally change here at this stage. It's pretty hard to learn the sort of mindset where you can be guarded sometimes and open other time. To a much lesser degree and for a different reason, Tao is risky to open up to, (and Elle, by association). However, his parents don't welcome, and implicitly punish him for emotional vulnerability. It's not rational for him to close himself off from Nick, or the majority of the Paris Squad. To be blunt, Charlie's fears about sharing his feelings are kind of rational at this point in his life. The two young men are going to have to carry on growing and developing as a couple even after this story. I feel like the story is meant to be a vignette, more like the mini comics, than a full character arc. I guess one may think that the issue is addressed implicitly or off the book, but it would seem weird that, being the main conflict, part of its resolution is left to be implicit or treated outside of the actions in the story. ![]() I believe this is the issue that Alice Oseman wanted to write about (I mean, Charlie being anxious about Nick going away and not talking with him about it) and I think they did it with great nuance and believability, so I don't think they were unaware of it. Which I guess they did, but I didn't find quite explicit on Charlie's part that he got where was the issue coming from. Yet, in the story, they act as if they grew as a couple and as a people. The situation was pretty unfair to Nick (which I think is conveyed in the fact that the first reaction of Nick is anger, which I found quite realistic) and Nick never brings it up. My point is that when they reconcile (after Charlie avoided the issue for two or so weeks and didn't talk to Nick, may I add), they don't really talk about (or the POV from neither of them indicates) that is not that healthy of Charlie to not comunicate what is happening with him and to put other people on "test". ![]() ![]() So then they have a fallout in a party with a drunk Charlie telling Nick that if Nick wants to break up, they should break up (and, for Charlie, his is a test on Nick, as he later says so). I find quite telling of this when Nick says something like "Charlie lies to everybody" or when Charlie says something like Nick has become pretty good at telling when he is having a bad time without Charlie communicating it. ![]() Spoiler alert if you haven't read the book, I guess?Īnyway, a couple of days ago I finished "Nick and Charlie" and, though I liked it and thought it was a cute story, I think the main issue in the conflict between Charlie and Nick isn't really addressed.įrom my perspective (and I think is what Alice Oseman wants to imply), the main problem is that Charlie tends to not talk about his feelings and avoids situations that make him anxious, so he lets them bottle up until they explode.
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