Proust is trying to show us that jealousy feels intolerable and makes us look absurd, but it is, at its crux, a quest for knowledge, a quest for truth, painful truth, and actually, where Proust is concerned, the more painful the truth, the better.
Proust nam pokušava pokazati da je ljubomora nepodnošljiva i zbog nje djelujemo apsurdno, ali ona je u svojoj srži potraga za znanjem, potraga za istinom, bolnom istinom, a što se Prousta tiče, što je istina bolnija, to bolje.