Question #4 Blog post 2

The story opens with David standing at the window of his house in the south of France.  He drinks and watches night fall, preparing himself for the worst.  He began having flashbacks of all the events that took placed in this life, which led to him to this moment and shaped who he has become. “I wanted to find myself in Paris” was the statement that started his flight, when in reality he is fleeing from himself. I believe the reason for David leaving America, is to avoid his father learning of his experience with joey and to escape who he was becoming. David is attractive to men and is ashamed to accept it; he tries to live by this father’s statement of becoming a real man. Throughout the story David hides his homosexuality by sleeping with women and persuading himself that he is not sexuality attracted to men. David succeed in this flight as he stated, “I think now that if I had had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home. But again, I think I knew, at the very bottom of my heart, exactly what I was doing when I took the boat for France”.