Giovanni's Room Analysis

Being dragged down to hell or receiving a gift from God. Could David be stuck in a type of purgatory, in between being alive and dead, being forced to face his sins and await his punishment. Purgatory is a state a suffering and confusion, when in purgatory you are dead but still alive in the sense you have not yet gone to heaven or hell. The suffering one endures while in purgatory is cruel and painful. One has to await their punishment--either through their own or by someone else's. David is stuck in a state of being: torn between two people whom he loves. David must make a choice in life to figure out who he is and what sexuallity he is. The suffering David receives comes later on when he lose the only two people he was in his life. Stuck in a never ending cycle of depression and pain, David is in purgatory.
When writing the book, Giovanni's Room, perhaps James Baldwin decided to write a story based off of
In this exotic new world, all find only sorrow and pain through their past life and their present. They are reminded of how they once had acted, and how their sinfully acts define the fabric of their well being today. Stuck in purgatory is a painful experience, you are judge based on how you acted before in your past life--and you must try to purge your sins away to be sent to the afterlife, heaven. If not, you are sent to a life much worse and to be given to satan. Sadly, Giovanni was given this fate. Giovanni was not able to find what he needed to get ride of his sins and as a result he was sent to execution. Hella was given a second chance, depriving of her sins and forget about how once her past made her cruel. David is stuck, stuck in a place where you can't escape and you can't hide from what you have done. A cabin to wait out his never ending life time sentence of pain. Only thoughts of his tragic life before to company him, alone in his state of