
Poor Giovanni... I constantly feel pity for him. He's clearly in love with the narrator, but David can never make up his mind. He feels as though he's commiting a crime by loving a man and therefore can't commit himself to Giovanni. Poor Giovanni, on the other hand, knows he loves David but can't handle David's "American" attitude and his inability to commit himself. In fact, David has a fiancee named Hella! He really can't make up his mind. While having a relationship with Giovanni, David writes to his father telling him he's going to marry Hella and bring her back to America with him. Furthermore, he's unfaithful to both Hella and Giovanni when he has an affair with a random American woman named Sue. He has absolutely no feelings toward Sue, so I don't understand why he has sex with her and then never talks to her again. I don't even think he finds her attractive. The whole novel somewhat boggles me. But then again, it is the fifties and I guess David needs to feel "normal" by society's standards so he still fakes interest in women. Giovanni is just in a painful situation. What's even worse is that from the beginning, the reader knows Giovanni will die. He's going to be hanged! I just don't know why. My friends tell me the novel is very sad, especially at the ending so I'm trying to brace myself for it. Although Giovanni is clearly destined to die, I just hope David tells him he loves him first. You know? It'd be a lot less of a downer that way. Honestly, David is just making himself miserable. A very frustrating character.
Reading Log!
100 Years of Solitude: 18 pgs (on pg 368)
Lolitaaa: 98 pgs(on pg 248)
Giovanni's Room: 103 pgs (on pg 103)
P.S. I'm a little disappointed that we have no in-class reading time this week... Just putting that out there.
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