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The Influence Of David In American Life

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I really began to see glimpses of David in the first chapter. What I got from it was that David was a man who for years had been facing an unanswered problem, ever since he was a kid. His temptation towards men. Especially coming from America, a country where sexuality is not really used to experience love with a person your own gender. This is just one of the things you might notice when going through the “American life”. Anything that you don't really find in the American life is seen as terrible. But something about David led me to believe that he knew he was above this, and that he was to smart to be affected by the public's view. Yet when surrounded by other Americans he surprised me, and showed ignorance, “It seemed, then, that a lifetime

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