Book II: Chapters I & II (pgs. 147-168)
In this portion of the novel, Lily and her acquaintances travel to Europe and they stop in Monte Carlo. Right now, my family and I are on a vacation in Europe, more specifically Austria. Because the setting in Chapters I and II was in Europe, I thought of our vacation. The architecture in Austria alone is amazing, especially in Vienna with the gorgeous palaces and one thousand-year-old buildings. We even ate dinner in a nine hundere-year-old building. We toured multiple palaces and catles, including the castle that inspired the structure of the Disney Cindarella Castle. One of the palaces included a treasury that held the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor. The sites and the scenary are magnificent both in the city and in the rural areas of Austria. The scenary of Europe described in the novel is also very beautiful, "Unclouded sunlight enveloped sea and shore in a bath of purest radiancy. The pupling waters drew a sharp white line of foam at the base of the shore; against its irregular eminences, hotels and villas flashed from the greyish verdure of olive and eucalyptus; and the background of bare and finely-pencilled mountains quivered in a pale intensity of light," (Wharton, 157). In Salzburg, my family and I climbed up to a fortress over one thousand years old. At the top, we overlooked the town of Salzburg encompassed by mountains with patches of snow dispersed across the peaks while the countryside was enveloped with emerald green grass. I have never seen such beautiful scenary.
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