nt cultural implications of him being from the unworthy Slavic East, Aschenbach is unable to carry the venerable title of defender of the Deutschekultur, as he has become "the cultural stranger himself." (207). Foster explicates that Aschenbach is a product of "living among several cultural options (...) and attempting to negotiate the differences in one's day-to-day experience" and by being a model for German culture is therefore representative of a major belief that Thomas Mann held; that no culture is pure but always multicultural and multifaceted, belying the German belief of their cultural superiority (197).
             John Burk Foster does in his essay exactly what he sets out to do; he ignores the homosexual repercussions of Tadzio gender (199). Though his method does clarify some underlying cultural ramifications, it entirely ignores that what Aschenbach is participating in is homosexual and, as Rodney Symington highlighted in his essay "The Eruption of the Other: Psychoanalytic Approaches t
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