Giovanni's Room Identity

Identity is knowing your sex and truthfully who you are as a person. If you do not have an identity, you wander from place to place trying to figure out your self. In the book Giovanni's Room, David is struggling with his sexual identity and struggling to find out who he is because of his surrounding. Your surrounding affect who you are as a person and plays a key role into who your are.

Paris is the city of love and david is there to find out his seexual identity. David questioning his sexual identity started with when he slept with joey, his best friend. “But out this astonishing, intolerable pain came joy; we gave each other joy that night” (pg.8). He felt something that he didn't feel before which was joy but at the same time he was
He was so afraid that he cut of his best friend, moved away from all pain and the past.”along with my innocence was dying”(pg. 16). After joey’s incident, he didn't look at himself as a pure man but as a criminal. The person that helped him and who he heated the most was Giovanni because he showed him who he truly is. “ I will smile at you when you wake up, they will not” (pg.63). Giovanni’s is also a gay guy and he has dealt with all the hardship ness. From people look at him wrong and himself being insecure with himself. He will accept him for who he is and not judge him based on his sexuality because they both like the same- sex type. “ you must go and find yourself another women, a good women, and get married, and have babies” (pg.68). He feels happy to be getting this talk with her because he thought that she can put some sense into him and tell him how to live his life. “ I’m talking about that hideous room”(pg. 117). David is mad at Giovanni because he made him feel happy in that room and that was not what david wanted. He made him feel loved and happy. David does housewife chores and that makes him happy. Giovanni’s room is where his real identity is revealed and he is mad because he
He lost his job and friends. He started to hangout with wrong groups and did a horrible crime. He killed Guillaume and he was sentenced death penalty. All these actions would have been avoided if he didn’t leave giovanni. “David, please let me be a woman”(pg.161). Hella is also facing the consequences because she can’t do what a women deos, taking care of her fiance needs and being there for him through sadness and happiness. She can’t do all that when she is being thrown to the side and David not letting her in emotionally. “I look at my sex, my troubling sex, and wonder how it can be redeemed”(pg.168). He faces the consequences because he still does not know what to do with his sex. Not only did he lose himself but he lost his