The end of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is rather confusing. Phaedrus seems to come back and have a conversation with Chris. There is not much that is said about what actually happened.
Did the Narrator become a ghost much like Phaedrus was at the beginning? Did the two personalities meld in some way?
Something that was very interesting was that the Narrator seems to acknowledge that he wasn't living a quality life. He simply existed for Chris and his wife. If it were up to him he would just sit and not interact with anybody. It seemed like when Phaedrus was erased the personality that replaced him was two dimensional where Phaedrus was three dimensional. As if had a stronger more real personality replaced Phaedrus the Narrator wouldn't have been able to hold it together even that long.
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