> But it’s not accurate to say he’s greedy and entitled
I didn't say he was greedy; by the sounds of it he's happy with very little. It is 100% correct to say he's entitled. He doesn't want to do the legwork of determining the terms, instead he expects that someone else does, and in a way that protects his interests. He feels entitled to that.
Yes, sorry, that was in other posts and it got blurred. I did not want to put words into your mouth.
> He doesn't want to do the legwork of determining the terms, instead he expects that someone else does
He explains why he did not involve his agent, and also that he does not expect anyone to do it. Otherwise he’d have plenty of opportunities to do it. He sounds entitled in that he has weird ideas about love and friendship but he just sounds like someone hurt that the world does not work as they thought.
He didn't want to involve his agent, but he didn't want to negotiate the contract himself either. He just wanted the purity of the art. Which I can understand and admire, but it was also contract work. And his unwillingness to see it for what it was, made the whole thing incredibly awkward for everybody.
In the end, his struggles seem to have lead to a lot of personal growth, and that's great, and he does seem to understand that he mostly created this problem himself, and could easily have prevented it by involving his agent. But I'm not so sure that he understands that this was never about friendship; he was hired to write an ending, had a profound artistic connection with the guy who hired him, and somehow he seemed to think that entitled him to a friendship rather than a business relationship. I'm not sure he understands that that was the core misunderstanding here, and that his belief in a friendship that was really a business relationship, made the business relationship really awkward and dysfunctional.
> he just sounds like someone hurt that the world does not work as they thought
Exactly, that's another facet of his entitlement that I have deep content for. Many good people work hard to figure out how the world works. Other people have in mind how it should work and get upset when it doesn't.
I think he was just very, very misguided, and he still is. And possibly on drugs. I cannot imagine myself following the reasoning he did. But at the same time I can see he was not trying to take advantage of it.
I didn't say he was greedy; by the sounds of it he's happy with very little. It is 100% correct to say he's entitled. He doesn't want to do the legwork of determining the terms, instead he expects that someone else does, and in a way that protects his interests. He feels entitled to that.