The uncertainties regarding their future is eating them up from inside but they seem to have a lifetime worth of stuff to share with each other over coffee, cognac and cigarettes. The too-nosy land lady, perhaps stands for the society that barely lets anyone be and hands out all the mindless solutions to critical but very real human anomalies.ĭavid and Giovanni pass their days away from the world and days pass them by with extreme fluidity. The rare blizzard sweeping through Paris marks the rare occurrence David had come upon of utmost pleasure and connection. They make love that night in the unruly room of Giovanni’s that put strange order to David’s mind which feels it has the liberty to flourish. Giovanni’s room being situated at a remote location from the main city of Paris signifies the almost too good to be true and out of the world experience they enjoy inside it. After he ends up going into Giovanni’s room, he knows his doom is near and it is too late for him to bail. He was scared as hell yet he could not but feel the instant pull of emotions.ĭavid is afraid to be alone with Giovanni he is afraid of being lost in the spell. He could fully understand his own sexuality and finally began to accept it to some extent since he met Giovanni and felt as if everything fell right into place for him. There is this amazing connection and admiration between them right away. His fear of being found out chases him all his life.ĭavid meets Giovanni and they hit it right off. David’s terrorizing yet pleasing homosexual encounter with a younger boy from school, Joey, makes him run and hide from himself and his family for the rest of his life. By laying his confused and tentative past right in front, Baldwin creates a compassionate atmosphere in the minds of his readers for the all the controversial elements to come. Then the reminiscing protagonist describes the incidents and circumstances of his childhood in details and the readers are drawn right into it. Baldwin leaves his readers in suspense with all of David’s past described in very brief. The novel opens with David thinking about his life reminiscing.

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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin