While the narrator isn’t likeable, I half expected a Good Solider situation, since I know the author was influenced by it. Instead the main character was more honest or stripped bare, and it is difficult for someone like that to be disliked, at least for me. The crisis of faith wasn’t as interesting as the inner most thoughts of the lovers. For me, it rang very true. How much time could be gained with someone you love simply by saying what you really thought? While it feels more like young love to me. I wasn’t difficult to believe a man such as the narrator never had that lesson. Even at the sad end he remains more-or-less unchanged.