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Ti Ti
One of a “triumvirate” of Saigon call girls, including Mimi and Ti Ti, who awaits to escape from Vietnam, along with the narrator and other evacuees. She is the leader of the trio. She has a voluptuous figure and smells of the same perfume that the narrator’s mother once wore. The scent causes the narrator to fall in love with Phi Phi.
Phi Phi Quotes in The Sympathizer
The The Sympathizer quotes below are all either spoken by Phi Phi or refer to Phi Phi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3 Quotes
By this degree, the three call girls were troupers, which could not be said of 70 or 80 percent of the prostitutes in the capital and outlying cities […] Most were poor, illiterate country girls with no means of making a living except to live as ticks on the fur of the nineteen-year-old American GI […] Now am I daring to accuse American strategic planners of deliberately eradicating peasant villages in order to smoke out the girls who would have little choice but to sexually service the same boys who bombed, shelled, strafed, torched, pillaged, or merely forcibly evacuated said villages? I am merely noting that the creation of native prostitutes to service foreign privates is an inevitable outcome of a war of occupation, one of those nasty little side effects of defending freedom that all the wives, sisters, girlfriends, mothers, pastors, and politicians in Smallville, USA, pretend to ignore behind waxed and buffed walls of teeth […] ready to treat any unmentionable afflictions with the penicillin of American goodness.
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The narrator is at the airport. While awaiting the plane that will take him out of Saigon and to the United States, he chats with a triumvirate of Saigon prostitutes who are also applying for refugee status. They were rescued by an American serviceman named Sarge and brought to the airport, supposedly as entertainment for on-duty servicemen. Sarge’s actual intention was to get these women, and as many other prostitutes as he could, a seat on a plane out of the country. Nguyen describes the place of the prostitutes within the military-industrial complex, which exploits and discards bodies for multiple Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum accusamus harum. Accusa
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Phi Phi Character Timeline in The Sympathizer
The timeline below shows where the character Phi Phi appears in The Sympathizer. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...waiting for the planes, the narrator talks to a trio of call girls named Mimi, Phi Phi , and Ti Ti. His status as a bachelor makes this permissible, and their company...
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