In the end, Lise achieves what she wants to do. When Lormerin reach home, he looks in the mirror and sees an “elderly, gray-haired man” and remembers “what he had been in the olden days, in the days of little Lise?” (11) Lormerin brought the light closer to him in order to look at himself closely. Lormerin sits down “crushed at the sight of himself, at the sight of his lamentable image, murmuring: “All over, Lormerin!” (12) Lormerin identity has been diminished by the fact that he is not the same man he once was, and that happens because the meeting with Renee. He realizes that his life is over, it does not end, but the way he sees it.
The change in Lormerin’s mood from one self-confidence into another with less confidence is the way he defines
The change in Lormerin’s mood from one self-confidence into another with less confidence is the way he defines