Ah, you're much more generous than I, LOL. Me, I was enjoying a big ol' slice of schadenfreude pie at his crashing fall. Josh did so well at crafting a character that walks that line between being a real person and being a target for the audience's scorn. The most prominent aspect of his character was simply the fact that he'd never grown up. He was clearly an adolescent who'd had no reason to transition to being an adult, and handled everything the way a fourteen-year-old would - as if it's all about him. I'd call the film an object lesson rather than an allegory - Tom seems to exist as a way for the filmmakers to say See? See what happens when you refuse to grow up? When you treat everyone around you as interchangeable parts to get what you want? His humanity was confined to those tiny little moments when he can't keep the mask up and it slips just enough to see something real, like that moment at the end of the sex scene, after he comes. That was a great little glimpse into his turmoil, and it helped in indicating that yeah, he really does understand that his world is falling apart. But he's incapable of letting anyone see what he's feeling, because That Would Not Be Cool. Again, an adolescent. What the film left me with more than anything was curiosity about what would happen to this guy next. Did he learn anything, or would he go on to con his way into another job where he'd just alienate everyone again? And I attribute that curiosity to Josh's handling of his interior. He made him just human enough to be interesting, but not human enough to really care deeply about him. In the end, he's just plain shallow - if he's anything else, he doesn't want anyone to know it, so how can anyone care?