The Ambassadors Visions of Paris Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

'Why I want to come out and live here myself. And I want to live while I am here too. I feel with you—oh you've been grand, old man, I've twigged—that it ain't right to worry Chad.' (8.2.15)

Like Strether, Jim Pocock takes one look at Paris and immediately thinks about how lame his life back in Woollett is. But the difference is that Jim is resigned to his fate as Sarah's husband in lame ole Woollett. That doesn't mean that he's happy about it. He wants badly to live in a place as fun and exciting as Paris, but knows he'll never take that kind of plunge.