Later on, he engages with a girl, Marzia, himself butthroughout the novel she is more of a means to engage in talk about it with Oliver, distracthimself from him, and fantasize about him through her. To some degree, it is one of manyattempts to imitate the behavior of the older more confident graduate student. Only later doesOliver tell Elio that he is in fact not interested in Chiara. Elio is confused