I've just recently seen Bus Stop and I was wondering:
Why does Virge stay at the bus stop? What's more, he kind of breaks with his former life and leaves everything. He says at the end that all his belonging "should be split among the boys". So he leaves everything behind. What puzzles me is what's the motive behind that?
Your question is very apropos. As you can see from the array of answers, there really is no answer. To me, it is one of the larger flaws of the movie. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It is not set up in the movie-- it hits us from totally out of the blue-- nor is it explained after the fact. *I* thought, while I was watching it, that he was staying because he was hooking up with the restaurant lady, but no, the movie just ends with no explanation offered at all.
All this talk about him leaving because of whatever change in his relationship with Beau and all makes no sense. Even if he really felt like this chapter of his life was over and it was time to move on, he *still* would have gone back to the ranch and gotten his stuff, and said goodbye to the other guys at the ranch-- I mean, Beau wasn't his *entire life* was he? If so, that's pretty creepy!
Over the years as I've watched the movie on TV, I'v always felt that with him staying is that Bo will soon be broke (seeing that he really doesn't have enough sense to run a business like a ranch) tsk. sigh.
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