The Poet Character Analysis

A writer who works as an emcee during a staging of Fantasia at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. He is “a modestly built” and “modestly dressed” bespectacled man whose writing has appeared in literary journals and newspapers. The narrator describes his poetry as “gentle and nostalgic” and “about the textures of everyday life.” The narrator thinks that his most memorable poem is about washing rice. He has also written a few columns for Sonny’s newspaper describing “the vagaries of American life” and the cultural miscommunication between Americans and the Vietnamese community.