The metaphor for Giovanni's room

Giovanni's room serves as a metaphor for both the safe space where David and Giovanni can share their natural love for each other, as well as the severe claustrophobia that such a relationship represented at the time. The sever claustrophobia that David feels is conveyed every time that he references how the walls seem to be closing in on him. David saw the source of this claustrophobia from the lack of support concerning his sexual preference, much of which stems form the views of his father. Giovanni's Room critiques David's father and moreover, "traditional" American expectations of masculinity and femininity. Nonetheless, you can not overlook the fact that David, and if so facto, Baldwin himself have a sense of love and hatred for it. It seems much like DuBois's theory of the double consciousness. David states that he "resented being called an American (and resented resenting it) because it seemed to make nothing more than that, whatever that was; and i resented being called not an American because it seemed to make me nothing. When i read this, i couldn't help but think of double consciousness and the comparison with this. (on a side note: I'm surprised this hasn't been made a movie yet with the recent success of Brokeback Mountain (can't say I'd see it) but none-the-less, much of the story line is similar).