Giovanni's Room #1
There are some interesting passages about being American (as opposed to being French, Italian, etc.); what relation do they have to the main themes of the novel? Interesting passages about being American: - "'You are an American?' he asked at last. 'Yes,' I said. 'From New York.' 'Ah! I am told that New York is very beautiful. Is it more beautiful than Paris?' 'Oh, no,' I said, ' no city is more beautiful than Paris -' 'It seems the very suggestion that one could be is enough to make you very angry,' grinned Giovanni." (29) - "'Paris is old , is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn't what you feel in New York -' He was smiling. I stopped. 'What do you feel in New York?' he asked. 'Perhaps you feel,' I told him, 'all the time to come. There's such power there, everything is in such movement.'" (29) - "'I don't believe in