Compounding his lack of confidence is Dylan’s realization that most people around him knew what was going on for almost a year. The discovery that one is “the last to know” delivers a humiliating blow and makes one feel contemptible—as if to say, “no one values or respects you enough to tell you.” Not only has he been betrayed by his girlfriend and his best buddy; he’s lost social status in the eyes of his friends. He imagines them gossiping behind his back, pitying him at best, laughing at him at worst.
