Sep 8, 2024
when people say the peach scene is gross but they don't realize it represents his sexual fluidity. the peach resembles his bisexuality- he's experimenting with his desires. after he gets the job done and oliver walks into the room, he cries because he feels that his attraction to men was abnormal- he asks oliver if he's sick for what he did and he responds saying "i wish everyone were as sick as you"- and he eats the peach to try and show elio that it isn't abnormal, and that he isn't repulsed by him. and after that elio realizes that his yearning is much more than he assumed, yet their time together is shortening