'His bundle of names links all our little band of men together': How one man relates to another in the novel of "Dracula"

In the last note of "Dracula", Jonathan Harker describes his son as the union of the men who defeated the horrible vampire. Is this union an amicable one, merely taking in consideration the adventures they had together; or did Stoker refer to some other meaning of bond when writing this sentence, and many other utterances as well? In order to give a satisfactory answer to this question; the importance of having some knowledge about Stoker's …

…able to link a story to the personal convictions of the author most of the time leads to a more accurate analysis. In this case, the conclusion can be drawn that Stoker has written Dracula starting from his own convictions and ideas of the society in which he lived. The result is an exciting adventure situated in an imaginary world, those of vampires, but with references to real life and implying Stoker's tendency to homosexuality.