Nguyen deftly portrays our protagonist’s two minds - sympathetic to both the southern vietnamese culture and to the communist cause of an American mindset and longing for his homeland of friend, lover, and confidant in the shadow of betrayal. Having spent his university years in the Unites States, he is able to more easily navigate the cultural differences than his fellow refugees, though racism is pervasive throughout - from his own countrymen as he, himself is mixed race, and from Americans’ distrust of the ‘yellow’ infiltration of the “Boat People”. As an attache to a high ranking Vietnamese General, he has access to top secret information, American intelligence, and a ticket to the United States after the fall of Saigon. He’s half-French, half-Vietnamese, an Army Captain in the Vietnamese Army, while spying for the Communists. The Sympathizer’s narrator is a double agent - a man of “two minds”.
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