I disagree with the notion that Oscar’s infatuation with women could be simply excused as his want of sex. The argument Jonathan made that Oscar, at the time of his death, was in love with Ybon and not just using her to save him from death as a Dominican virgin, I think goes more along the lines Diaz was going for when he wrote the book’s ending. Perhaps Oscar’s intentions toward women earlier in his life were less noble, but they would’ve been less a reflection of Oscar’s moral character and more so a reflection of the environment he grew up in. Moreover, Oscar, in the short time he got to spend with Ybon, seemed to have come to the realization that what he truly wanted all his life wasn’t sex but love. And for Oscar, a child raised by a
