Will O’ the Wisp

Will O’ the Wisp is hard to understand what it is about. This novel is mysterious story and it is about addiction and self-destructive. This novel is based on actual suicide story of one of the Pierre Drieu's friend. The story is about Alain, the young drug addict, who has no hope or no target in his life, and wandering for several years. He lived in the clinic to cure his addiction, but he has always been the weak person who thinks he was all alone and tries to get away from the reality that he does not have any friends or acquaintances, even at the end of his life. So I think heroin and alcohol was one of the methods for him to turn his face away from the distressing realities of life. He maybe waited the last forty-eight hours for any answer or any argument to hold him in this world, and to give any direction. But he finds no such things, and he commits suicide in the end. I maybe expected some happy ending, just like many other novels, such as Alain finds a friend who would approach him and give him reasons to live the life, or he himself finds a way or some regrets over his life and get over the drug addiction and etc. But it didn’t, and as he questioned himself until the world’s end, this novel made me to question myself what the life is about, and leaves some aftereffect.