Chapter one -quotes

1) ''...A quiet American', I summed him precisely up as I might have said, 'a blue lizard', 'a white elephant'.'

--I think this statement shows how American people were seen in the world at that time. I think it is a dirrect reference to Americans always trying to fullfill the American dream and never being still and settled.

2) 'She had attached herself to youth and hope and seriousness and now they had failed her more than age and despair.'

--This quote not only shows us the situation Phoung has gotten into, because of Pyle's death, but it also tells very much about Pyle and the narrator.