Giovanni’s Room
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Consider how competing expectations involving gender created multiple conflicts in Giovanni’s Room. How did gender shape all of the characters in their quests for success and fulfillment? For the characters from the United States, did the “pursuit of love” and the “pursuit of the American dream” overlap or diverge in the novel? What gender-related message(s) did James Baldwin offer twentieth-century Americans by writing Giovanni’s Room?

Consider how competing expectations involving gender created multiple conflicts in Giovanni’s Room. How did gender shape all of the characters in their quests for success and fulfillment? For the characters from the United States, did the “pursuit of love” and the “pursuit of the American dream” overlap or diverge in the novel? What gender-related message(s) did James Baldwin offer twentieth-century Americans by writing Giovanni’s Room?