English 015 - Americans Abroad
Bryan Ciborowski
Impersonal War
Category: 08B: Going After Cacciato | Bryan Ciborowski
Interestingly, the settings comment on one another by showing the distinction between a war fought impersonally and personally. This idea of impersonality can be clearly seen in the episode with Li Van Hgoc. Here we see how a soldier, Paul Berlin, acts towards his enemy after interacting with him...
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Posted by on December 02, 2003 at 01:54 PM
Deviant Behavior Within the Lyles
Category: 3E: Bowles | Bryan Ciborowski
“She’s an hysterical old hag, and the boy ----! He’s a criminal degenerate if I ever saw one. He gives me the creeps” (pg. 65). From the first time the reader meets the Lyles in The Sheltering Sky, they display deviant behavior. The Lyles’s sinister conduct is strikingly more...
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Posted by on November 25, 2003 at 02:01 PM
The Lyle's Creepiness
Category: 06B: The Sheltering Sky | Bryan Ciborowski
The Lyles enter into The Sheltering Sky on an extremely peculiar note. The first scene we see the Lyles is when they knock on Port’s door, come in, and instead of making normal conversation, Eric Lyle remarks on Port’s bag tags, “You have some nice labels on your bags…Luggage...
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Posted by on November 06, 2003 at 02:15 PM
Charlie as a Symbol of the Future
Category: 2E: Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald | Bryan Ciborowski
While abroad, Americans assimilate themselves into the ‘in-crowd’ in order to establish security amidst European society and culture. With this security comes the sacrifice of a personal identity struggle. This struggle results from arguments and fights amongst the ‘in-crowd’, which prove to be extremely self-revealing and reflecting. In The Sun...
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Posted by on October 30, 2003 at 04:04 PM
Opportunities Lost
Category: 05B: Babylon Revisited | Bryan Ciborowski
Charlie’s dissipation in Paris is caused by Paris’s plethora of opportunities that were wasted during the time of Charlie’s alcohol problem. Charlie had an opportunity to have a very wholesome life: one that included a loving wife and a daughter. Charlie acknowledges his foolishness when back in Paris sober...
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Posted by on October 23, 2003 at 01:52 PM
False Confidence
Category: 04B: Autobiography of ABT | Bryan Ciborowski
Gertrude Stein comes across as stunningly confident because of the society she hangs around in. Stein’s confidence is boosted because of her friendship with Picasso and her recognition as a well-known writer of the time. At the same time being confident, she is also afraid of confident people because...
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Posted by on October 14, 2003 at 01:58 PM
Jake Is Halfway There
Category: 03B: The Sun Also Rises | Bryan Ciborowski
Although there is not a distinct hero in The Sun Also Rises, Jake comes the closest to heroism because of his loyalty to Brett. Brett and Jake’s relationship is a mere dream that cannot be because of Brett’s unwillingness to give up sex due to Jake’s impotence. This is...
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Posted by on October 07, 2003 at 01:24 PM
Escalating Competition
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Bryan Ciborowski
Americans are inevitably nervous and insecure with themselves when traveling abroad. The struggle for power and control instigates intense competitiveness between fellow Americans who strive to have the upper hand. While in an intense competitive state, Americans will not only lash against on fellow Americans, but also upon the...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 02:07 PM
Who has the power?
Category: 02B: Roman Fever | Bryan Ciborowski
In both ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘Roman Fever’, the women seem to have an upper hand over the men. There is role reversal between the two and it is clear in both stories. In ‘Daisy Miller’, Winterbourne is completely controlled and mesmerized by Daisy, and in ‘Roman Fever’, Delphin Slade is...
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Posted by on September 23, 2003 at 02:05 PM
An Ignorant American
Category: 01B: Daisy Miller | Bryan Ciborowski
Mrs. Costello describes Daisy Miller as being “uncultivated” and “very common.” I couldn’t agree more. Daisy Miller’s actions abroad reveal her ignorance to her surroundings in Europe. Mr. Winterbourne is so caught up in this “pretty American flirt’s” looks that he becomes oblivious to her disrespectful actions for a woman...
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Posted by on September 16, 2003 at 12:58 AM
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Posted by on September 10, 2003 at 09:40 PM