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The Quiet American Reading Log The Quiet American: Reading Log PART I Chapter 1 Narrator lives in room alone over Rue Catinat Associated with a man named Pyle, has
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The Quiet American: Reading Log
PART I
Chapter 1
Narrator lives in room alone over Rue Catinat
Associated with a man named Pyle, has met him many times before
Phuong- meaning Phoenix waits for Pyle also. She speaks French. Phuong cannot wait in public as the police may pick her up
Phuong and Pyle are a couple
Phuong was once in a relationship with the narrator
Pyle "Had pronounced and aggravated views on what the US was doing for the world"
Narrator smokes opium pipes regularly
Phuong replies to the whether Pyle loves her and narrator's thoughts: "In Love?' Perhaps it was one of the phrases she didn't understand."
Pyle is an associate of General Thé
Narrator is not homesick? "I never wanted to go home." He's in love with Phuong still, yet Pyle has Phuong.
"'I wish I were Pyle,' I said aloud, but the pain was limited and bearable the opium saw to that."
Narrators name is Fowler. Fowler is a very polite gentleman, well mannered.
There seems to be no power for anyone, Police appear corrupt. "Legality was not essential in a country at war."
Different sides: Communists, French
Private armies: Hoa-Hoas, Caodists, General Thé
What is Phuong? Vigot believes she is a prostitute being paid.
Description of Pyle by Fowler: "He's a good chap in his way. Serious. Not one of those noisy bastards at the Continental. A quiet American,' I summed him precisely up as I might have said, a blue lizard', a white elephant'."
Gives up waiting for Pyle, assumes him dead.
Pyle appears to be a young man, out of college. He was a 32 year old American, and employed in the Economic Aid Mission.
Fowler has been aged by the war.
Pyle "He was absorbed already in the dilemmas of Democracy and the responsibilities of the West; he was determined I learnt that very soon to do good, not to any individual...
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