In the novel Enduring Love, the antagonist Jed Parry (to be referred to as Parry) suffers from de Clérambault’s syndrome, and he finds solace from his socially unorthodox loneliness through his unconditional love for the protagonist Joe Rose (henceforward known as Joe). However, even though he believes his love for Joe to be mutual, Joe ends up looking for his own form of comfort from which he can escape Parry. Joe is a thinker, who looks for consolation in his articles about Science and rational thinking. Perhaps Joe finds Science so comforting because of its precise examples and intellectual worth; it lacks all the complications of stories and even to an extent life. It is important to note that even the day after the tragic balloon accident
