Because of Christopher 's condition, he has a need to establish order in his predominant life. He has somewhat of a strict routine and his ability to break the routine comes from his little adaptability. This can be shown when he describes the his discomfort he felt on his family 's vacation and the lack of scheduling and routine.
Because Christopher has trouble identifying and connecting with other people on an emotional level, he relies heavily on order and logic to understand and navigate the world.
Perhaps this is why throughout his narration he often changes subjects abruptly to talk about more logical and organised topics such as physics and mathematics that consist of clearly defined rules and structure.
When the narration comes back to whatever is happening in Christopher’s life, the chaos of the social and emotional lives of those around him becomes even more visble to Chistopher.
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Throughout the entire novel, Christopher experiences a series of increasingly destabilizing events, such as learning of Mother’s affair and Father’s deceptions, revealing that Christopher’s narrow focus on order at the beginning of the novel actually keeps him—and the reader—blind to the complex tangle of relationships within his family. This disorder grows increasingly prominent as the story progresses. When Christopher leaves Swindon to find his mother in London, he becomes literally demobalised at times by the disorder of the massive urban landscape he passes through, which symbolizes the disorder he faces in his family. The novel concludes with the various characters resolving some of their issues, but with their lives remaining essentially as untidy as