TRF- Materialism, American Dream, Initial Enjoyment

"I knew in my senior year...

...that I was something special" "a perfect breast" "summa cum laude"

Changez' U&S job: "i felt...

...empowered"

"all manner of new...

...possibilities were opening up to me"

"spend in an hour...

...more than my father earned in a day!"

"ordered a bottle...

...of vintage champagne" -- excess and materialism

Jim's house is a "magnificent property that made me...

...think of the Great Gatsby"

"protective ridge...

...of sand dunes" (Jim's house-- closed off)

"served champagne by an attractive and [...]

...attractive flight attendant" "James Bond"-- media reference, silly and unrealistic

"the ease with which..

...they parted with money"

"my finite and...

..depleting reserve of cash"

Changez when describing coming to Princeton "my life was a film in which I was the star...

...and everything was possible"

"in the foreground shimmered Erica...

...and observing her gave me enormous satisfaction

When Changez describes Rhodes, he say's "they guarded against the Turks" and that there's a "wall against the East that still stands"...

..."How strange it was for me to think I grew up on the other side!"

The building at Underwood & Samson was "higher than any two structures here in Lahore would be...

...if they were stacked one atop the other"

Despite having been to nice places like the Himalayas, Changez says "nothing had prepared me for the drama,...

...the power of the view from their lobby" (Underwood and Samson)

When reflecting on the economic differences between Pakistan and America, Changez says "to be reminded of this vast disparity,...

...was, for me, to be ashamed"-- underlying disturbance of his materialistic dream, he can't really enjoy it because he's aware of the injustice

"my firm's impressive offices...

...made me proud"

The 'meritocracy' of Underwood and Samson is summed up by a vice president of the company who says to the new trainees: "If you do well, you'll be rewarded....

...If you don't, you'll be out the door"

Changez reflects on how his life has changed at Jim's summer party, saying "The sea had always seemed far away to me...

...,luxurious and full of adventure; now it was becoming almost a regular part of my life"

At Jim's summer party: "How much had changed...

...in the four years since I had left Lahore!"

Erica's family home "impressive building with....

...a blue canopy and an elderly doorman"

"coldly disapproving...

...expression" like a "gatekeeper of one of Lahore's larger mansions"

"apply ourselves single-mindedly...

...to the achievement of that objective"

"a bath, a kitchen...

...a little patch of garden"

"they expect us...

...colony men to be uncultured" -Gilbert

"politeness has always...

...been my policy" -Gilbert

"you'll soon get used...

...to our language"

"I may not have been studying...

...law in this mother country"

"for a Jamaican man a job...

...as a driver was great luck"

"he cannot employ me because his...

...partner does not like coloured people"

"there no job...

..for you here" "we can't use your sort"