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How Does The Object Of My Affection End?

Finished reading 'The Object of My Affection' and my heart can't take it. Are George and Nina endgame, or do the romantic subplots leave them separately happy?
2026-02-13 17:24:45
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Camacho Elkaa
Camacho Elkaa
I would hate for anyone to find out the ending of that novel because it is one of those stories that has to be experienced by the reader in order to get the full emotional impact of it. It is a long and winding journey into the depths of an incredibly intricate and extremely unsettling obsession that gets inside of you long after you have finished reading it. I can also recommend another obscure novel that gets under your skin by exploring the intricacies of another, equally complex, and equally disturbing, obsession in “My Pretty Little Object”, a novel about an art restorer who becomes convinced that a certain sculpture is communicating with her, and, as she delves deeper into the object of her fascination, her sanity begins to blur the lines between her expertise and her growing delusion. The ending of this book is also best devoured page by page.
2026-08-01
Hope
Hope
The ending of ‘The Object of My Affection’ is so lovely in that it is bittersweet yet hopeful. So after all of that angst and torture Nina and George do not end up as a couple but in a way that is so much better than that. Nina comes to realize that she cannot change George and that he is actually gay. But more importantly George comes to realize the value of the friendship that he has with Nina. They go on to raise Nina’s child together in a wonderful platonic relationship – showing that family does not have to be same sex parents.

I love this film’s resolution of the story so much, because it goes exactly where you expect it to go, while remaining true to the characters. So many other romantic comedies would have had to have Nina and George end up in each other’s arms for good in the end. Instead, this has Nina growing up as an independent person, and George able to assert his identity as a gay man, which is wonderful. The final shot of the two of them dancing with the baby in each other’s arms is one of the most get me emotions ever – so not what I expected from this film upon first viewing, but so much more meaningful and true. It is a great reminder of the many different forms of love there are, and that so often the most meaningful relationships to us are the ones that don’t easily fit into the categories we so readily resort to for shorthand.
2026-02-17
Relebohile
Relebohile
The ending of this romantic subplot has been floating around in my head for years, becoming the benchmark by which I measure other romantic subplots. Does this story have the integrity to stick to its own internal logic even when that means providing the audience with something disappointing? The Object of My Affection does this so memorably in the story of Nina and her landlord, George. Instead of a romantic connection that would not be sustainable in real life, they have instead found honesty and a solid friendship. This is the kind of storytelling I admire most.
2026-08-01
Indara Ospino
Indara Ospino
I read this while at a crossroads in my own life and it was very impactful especially at the end when I got to see that Nina let go of her romantic notions of who she wanted to be with and saw that there was so much more to love in a relationship than what she had been wanting. The final image of the story is two people who love each other and a baby, formed by choice and honesty. It’s a quiet revolution of an ending and not really something that is stated, but rather is conveyed through the little details of their daily lives like going to the grocery store together and staying up with their baby at night.
2026-08-01
Aida Gonzalez
Aida Gonzalez
A lot of readers today are not surprised by an ending that in 1908 caused a stir among audiences and was even suppressed by the censors. This is because recently there have appeared on the pages of many magazines stories about queer people and about their chosen families, but here in That Spinal Injured Gentlemen and in Nina the two main characters find a way of integrating their sexual truth into their fulfilling lives, in a very positive way. Nina’s complete wholeness is found outside of a romantic relationship with a man and the ending of the story is the culmination of this quiet progressivism.
2026-08-03

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