He puts his luggage into a gondola, and the rouged man drunkenly wishes him a pleasant stay. When the coastline comes into view, the young men on the ship celebrate, but their older companion has become pitifully drunk.Īs the ship enters Venice, von Aschenbach recognizes several landmarks. Later, he lunches in the hold of the ship, and again observes the same group of men. Von Aschenbach finds this man's obvious attempts at recapturing his lost youth revolting. He enters the ship somewhat disgusted, and as he watches the second-class passengers board, he notices a group of young men joined by an older man wearing rouge and dressed gaudily to appear younger. The ship employee who sells von Aschenbach his ticket attempts to impress him with tidbits about how wonderful Venice is, which annoys von Aschenbach. Von Aschenbach is dissatisfied with the location, decides he is in the wrong place, and boards a ship to Venice. He stops at a resort on an island in the Adriatic, populated mainly by Austrian tourists. He takes a train to Trieste, Italy, where he boards a ship for Pola. Two weeks later, von Aschenbach is ready to leave Munich, and asks that his house in the German countryside be prepared for his arrival four weeks hence.
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