"I'd never been to Miami before. I was impressed and excited by the colorful tropical vegetation and the palms around the terminal, the warm sun and the bright, clean air. The lack of tall buildings, the seeming openness of the landscape, the gaudy and casual attire of the people milling around the airport terminal made me feel like I'd been set down in a strange and wonderful land. I was inside the terminal before I realized I didn't have the slightest idea where Pan Am house its people in Miami. Well, there was an easy way to find out." (56)
-This quote is of great importance to the story in that it portrays the mood of the entire book extremely well through this simple quote. It's amazing how a man of his criminal record and how everyone in the world is looking for him, how he can just casually walk through the airport without and regard to the people around him, the amount of trouble he could get in, or even where to escape if he were confronted. This part of the book just makes me frustrated at the fact that he can do this when if I was in the same situation I would be sweating, looking for exits, and worrying about who was looking at me to capture me and send me directly to jail.127 Throughout this whole book it makes Frank seem as though he is on a free vacation to wherever he wants and the world is paying for it. It's almost like he is sight seeing to the most beautiful places in the world when with just a single call or single second he could lose it all to just a small cell in the worlds most unpleasent jail.
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Jimmy this sounds like a good book with a lot of action in it. I have seen the movie and I was wondering if the book was any good and if it is worth reading. I agree with your comment on the quote. I would not be relaxed either if I could land in jail at any time.
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