In Death In Venice, The narrator states, “For passion, like crime, does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life; it welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such disorder a vague hope of finding an advantage for itself”(Mann, 1117). By dissecting this quote and applying it to the sequence of events that take place, we are able to use individual parts within the quote to explain its overall theme. Throughout the story we are able to get a sense of who Gustav von Aschenbach is through the narrator's depiction of him. We understand that the is in a rut and hasn't been able to for some write for some time. This causes him to yearn for something