From Vietnam with Love: Alden Pyle

Good intentions coupled with naiveness & lack of understanding of Vietnamese culture and history, lead to disaster.

forcefulness against Asian/Vietnamese civilian population acceptable as a means to an end.

Lack of respect for Third conception nations.

Implicit negative criticism of U.S. policies & use of U.S. power abroad.

arriver of the young, preppy "quiet" American Alden Pyle in 1952 Saigon sets central conflict into motion.

Pyle's undetermined role as a humanitarian worker revealed to be a cover for his covert role t

1. Pyle's remark that the bystanders "died in the right cause?

for majority rule" reveals his destructive way of viewing the situation in Vietnam.

Phuong as a symbol of Vietnam, the West (U.S., Great Britain, France) believing they screw what is best for the East (Vietnam), without considering the right to self-determination.

Pyle's uncompromising belief in a "third force," that leads him to sacrifice people for ideology.

Phuong, the beautiful, young jump hall girl/quasi prostitute who has affairs with Fowler and Pyle.

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