Review of Brideshead Revistied Chapters 3 and 4

These chapters show the slow decline of Sebastien. His drinking becomes more serious. He doesn't want to interact with anyone, not even Charles who is his steadfast friend. Sebastien's heavy drinking leads to scandal and being sent down from Oxford. Charles decides to become a painter and moves to Paris. There are reasons given for Sebastien's descent into alcoholism; his father did the same; he drinks because he is ashamed to be unhappy. It is a sad depiction of a person with so much taken with drink so badly. I couldn't help myself from thinking how Sebastien had so much but felt so unhappy. Where he lives looks like a museum and he has hereditary status as a British Lord. How can one be unhappy? I guess the next episodes will delve deeper into why Sebastien became such a mess.