“A Little Life” (post 8) by Hanya Yanagihara: Try to Diagnose and Fix Jude or be Neglectful and Immoral

“The person he thought he knew turned out to be, in some ways, not the person before him, and it had taken him time to figure out how many facets he had yet to see: it was as if the shape he had all along thought was a pentagram was in reality a dodecahedron [twelve faces], many sided and many fractaled [infinitely complex] and much more complicated to measure…When he had promised himself that he wouldn’t try to repair Jude, he had forgotten that to solve someone is to want to repair them: to diagnose a problem and then not try to fix that problem seemed not only neglectful but immoral” (1, p. 586).

Comment: Will the author ever make the multiple personality diagnosis?

1. Hanya Yanagihara. A Little Life. New York, Anchor Books, 2015/2016.