It is under the foreign sky of Paris, where identity is protected by anonymity and the darkest secrets do not transcend the limits of a room, that David, an American young man, is forced to face the convoluted layers of the true nature of his identity. Told in the first-person narrator, Giovanni's Room bewilders the reader because of the perturbing sensitivity with which Baldwin portrays an extremely delicate predicament; that of listening to the self-deprecating inner voices that corrode the consciousness of those who deny their true selves for the sake of indoctrinated conventionalism and a false sense of security. David is, among other things, an unreliable narrator. Sometimes, when we think of unreliable narrators we think of people who aren't mentally stable or people who are lying for a specific reason . David's not unreliable in that way. In fact, it seems that he is doing everything he can to tell the truth as he recounts his story. Yet his story is full of a thousand little lies and biased points of view. The city of Paris is very important in Giovanni's room. Baldwin uses the city both as a normal setting and sometimes even makes it seem like the city is a person itself. Early in the book we learn that Paris is the current location of David, Jacques, Giovanni, and most of the other characters we meet, excluding Hella. Paris is famously known for its title as the city of love so I think that it is very ironic that Baldwin would choose such a place to have this story unfold.