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......

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Title: The Quiet American Reading Log
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