This presentation is part of my academic exam. This presentation is on Adrian's suicide from the novel sense of an ending by julian barnes. Here I have tried to see whether the suicide of Adrian was waste or impressive.

1. Adrian’s Suicide : Waste or
Impressive
Name : Dharaba Rayjada
M. A Sem : 4
Paper No. 13 : The New Literatures
Email ID : dharabarayjada021@gmail.com
Department of English, MKBU

2. Introduction
• Adrian is a character in the novel “The
Sense of an Ending” by Julian Barnes.
• Tony is the narrator of the novel and friend
of Adrian.
• From the very beginning Adrian’s character
has been developed as a philosopher and
highly intelligent and thinking person.
• Because of his intelligence he also earned
the scholarship of Cambridge University.
• Later on he ends his life. Everyone is in
shock because no one has expected this
from Adrian.

3. How it is Waste?
• Reason of his suicide might be the guilt
of getting Sarah pregnant.
• If so then he is running away from his
responsibilities.
• If so then there is no difference
between Robson and Adrian.
• At the end the verdict of Coronor’s
inquest says that he killed himself while
the balance of his mind was disturbed.

4. But What if
it is
Not So?

5. How it is Impressive?
• We were told that he was Happy
in his last days.
• He has thought a lot before
committing the act.
• He has given logical reasoning
behind suicide.
• He has planned his death in such
a way that can not be failed.

6. First Class Suicide
• He was unique in committing suicide.
• “Hamlet” - Ophelia
• “Doctor Faustus” – Doctor Faustus
• “Fakeer of Jungheera” – Nuleeni
• “Frankenstein” – Monster
• “Mourning Becomes Electra” – Lavinia
Mannon
• “The Swamp Dwellers” – Igwezu
• “The Sense of an Ending” – Adrian
• Everybody else has done this act in
overflow of powerful feelings, but not
Adrian.

7. Conclusion
• We don’t know certainly what happened in the mind of Adrian, but
we can certainly tell that “Something Happened”. And the way it has
happened, without any doubt it was impressive.

8. Work Cited
• Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. UK: Jonathan Cape and Knopf,
2011.