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: A central theme is that memory is not a recording but an active, often self-serving, rewriting of history. Tony discovers a vitriolic letter he wrote decades earlier that he had completely "forgotten," forcing him to realize he was far crueler than his "peaceable" self-image allowed.

: The protagonist, Tony Webster, is a retired man who reconstructs his youth in the 1960s. The paper should focus on how his "certainties" about his past—specifically his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Veronica and his brilliant friend Adrian Finn—are dismantled by new evidence. The Sense of an Ending

Below is an overview of the key concepts and themes you should include in your paper for both works. 1. Julian Barnes’s Novel (2011) : A central theme is that memory is