“Friendship is a slippery notion”. Discuss in relationship to Hart, Alice, Mitsy, and Jamie.

Friendship is a ‘slippery notion’. This is the definition of the friendship that Garry Disher sets against the background of the war. Hart is grappling between the loss of friendship and the betrayal of friendship. His life circle only deals with the jealousy, racial differences, darkness of love and prejudice. He seems to take all of these to be formed a friendship. Can this friendship be made to endure? He blindly forgets all of the contents that can make the friendship endure. Even his relationship with Mitsy, he also does not know how to maintain both relationship as friend and as lover. Hart’s jealousy toward Jamie Killian is the cause of their difficult relationship because Hart only see Jamie as a rival for Mitsy’s love. According to Garry Disher’s thoughts, Hart only fully learns about the importance of friendship after he has experienced though problems connected with the war. For example, he is disloyal to some of his friends and the war results in the death of his ...