It's somewhat related to the simplification of thinking that

这跟将同性恋简化成欲望
homoerotics is the desire for the same.

有一定的相关性
What both of these logics leave out is that point

这两个逻辑的共同出发点是
that is insisted upon, actually, earlier in the novel,

小说的前半部分所坚持的论点
which is that the other fellow always has a life you can't know,

也就是子不知鱼之乐
that it's simply the otherness of any individual person that keeps you

你只能看到别人生活的表面现象
from knowing more than you can see on the surface.

却不了解别人的真实情况与你有什么不一样
It's the otherness, not the racial otherness,

是相异性而不是种族相异性
necessarily, but just the otherness.

并非特指种族
So, in these last pages, otherness gets collapsed back into

在之前的篇章中相异性
racial otherness, and I think perhaps this is why

被贬回了种族相异性我认为也许
Ernestine emerges as a stereotyped character.

这就是为什么欧内斯廷给人一种刻板印象