As the ostensible author of The End of the Affair Maurice Bendix is amazingly narcissistic. In a journey through the affair between Maurice and Sarah, it is impossible to not notice how selfish and self-absorbed the perceived author is. His recounting of the affair is laden with grandiose overtones and allusions to being God-like. From the very beginning Maurice’s superior tone is evident-- he has been “praised for his technical ability,” he “can be …showed first 75 words of 979 total…

…showed last 75 words of 979 total…but the whole discourse was actually written as how he remembered it. And as most people know, how a memory is retold is often colored by the images the teller wants to portray. I think that Maurice, with his one leg shorter than the other and not-so-great apartment, wants the reader to believe he is everything everyone says he is. In this case the self-absorbed Maurice wants us to believe that he accurately revealing history.