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Part 7, Chapter 5
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Razor’s Edge, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Wisdom and the Meaning of Life
Social Norms and Conformity
Trauma and Self-Destruction
Snobbishness, Social Status, and Cosmopolitanism
Truth and the Problem of Evil
Summary
Analysis
Somerset writes that he has reached the end of his story. He has heard nothing of Larry since Larry returned to the U.S. and supposes that he is working in a garage, driving a truck, or operating a taxi there. He hopes that Larry is writing a book about all that life has taught him. In a way, Somerset writes, he himself has written a book about success because everyone involved ultimately found what they had been looking for.
Somerset says again that he has written a book that shares similarities with the book that Larry wrote. Both books aim to investigate success, and Somerset tries to investigate success as it is defined by his contemporaries. Ultimately, Somerset says that each person in the novel has found what they were looking for, but the novel has also made a case that some of those goals were more worthy of pursuit than others.
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