The suave, savvy, and free Xavier is divested of all responsibility for his rash actions. He slips through his life (Jaromil's dreams) into another "scene" when a need for responsibility surfaces. The stages within which Xavier is "living" are discontinued in the aftermath of his actions as he plunges head first into another dream. Eventually, during Jaromil's later life, the borders between the dreams and reality are blurred as Jaromil tries to infiltrate the shoes of his alter ego. Given the fact that such a creation as Xavier could not survive in reality, Jaromil's life is snuffed out by his incapacity to face life and the consequences his decisions have on him.
To analyze such dreams and understand the shirking of responsibility displayed in the colorful scenes, we must also consider the concepts of the dreams themselves. Keeping in mind that Xavier is an active role in Jaromil's life, we must closely follow the dreams that keep one boy running and keep one "man" alive. Where do the dreams begin? In Jaromil's life, they are born at the awkward cusp between youth and adolescence; the time when Jaromil begins to pull away from his mother's suffocating grasp and leap into the unknown arms of a strange new world. This was on of the reasons Jaromil slipped away was his desire to be free of his mother's self-centered love - a burden that he strained against all of his life. Jaromil has reverted to himself in the past to heal the wounds of his pride, and this behavior becomes unhealthy as it progresses to the point where he creates a dream persona that begins to dominate his life (Xavier). His feelings of being crushed, as well as his natural tendency as a poet to internalize the world around him, are factors that led to the creation of this unhealthy, fictitious world that eventually surrounds him and guides him, blindly, to his downfall. .
The irresponsibility the dreams present, i.
