Still reading the goldfinch and it’s so obvious that Theo. Is. Gay. I’m- -the Anon who’s just started reading the goldfinch
It’s like, Theo does the gayest shit, all but directly says that his friendship (like that’s the right word. yeah okay) is the only one of substance he’s ever had-- and doesn’t even have at book’s end-- and then turns to the reader and is like “where did you get the impression i, mister theo decker, am a homosexual??” and then expects us to believe him.
yeah, you’re a great liar Theo, but to people who don’t know you. we’re reading your journal. that crazy detailed diary you kept of every place you went, what you ate, who you saw, hell every time you went to boris’s house-- WHOMST you call “B” which is just... really really sweet actually. but you can’t lie to the people who now know you near-intimately. lying to yourself works because you want to believe it my guy. we don’t. we don’t want to so we just fucking see all the seams and cracks and holes.
also, we’re all repressed. we spot his bullshit nine years away like “oh, been there, done that. let me tell you how it ends. ur still gay”