This doesn't have anything to do with my area of interest but I just thought it was interesting. I was playing squash with a French girl that goes to Trinity the other day and I asked her if she wanted to stay in the United States after college. And she replied "yes I would never want to go back to France. Everyone is so angry all the time. I know people say Americans are really fake but I'd rather work with people who are at least pretending to be happy…it's much more pleasant and it's not like everyone is fake..it's actually quite easy to find genuine people". This related to  when the narrators were talking about Mrs. Karafilis and she said "What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time" (169). It was just a coincidence because I was just talking about it to my squash instructor.