Koreatown is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California that is most known for it's Korean-American population and stores that cater to the needs of said population (most notably being Korean grocery stores). This area is also the recipient of over $400 million worth of damages during the La Riots in 1992 (Tangherliini 154). 

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Deciding not to finish his degree, and choosing to study abroad, Fitzhenry visits these places. His travels are reminiscent of the practice of the “Grand Tour:” a trip through Europe taken by upper-class young men in the 17th through 19th centuries. It was associated with an educational rite of passage and reserved for young men coming from backgrounds of wealth and rank.

“Once on the continent [of Germany], the mania of traveling seized him. He visited Italy, Poland, and Russia: he bent his wayward steps from north to south, as the whim seized him.” (86)

Deciding not to finish his degree, and choosing to study abroad, Fitzhenry visits these places. His travels are reminiscent of the practice of the “Grand Tour:” a trip through Europe taken by upper-class young men in the 17th through 19th centuries. It was associated with an educational rite of passage and reserved for young men coming from backgrounds of wealth and rank.

“Once on the continent [of Germany], the mania of traveling seized him. He visited Italy, Poland, and Russia: he bent his wayward steps from north to south, as the whim seized him.” (86)

Deciding not to finish his degree, and choosing to study abroad, Fitzhenry visits these places. His travels are reminiscent of the practice of the “Grand Tour:” a trip through Europe taken by upper-class young men in the 17th through 19th centuries. It was associated with an educational rite of passage and reserved for young men coming from backgrounds of wealth and rank.

“Once on the continent [of Germany], the mania of traveling seized him. He visited Italy, Poland, and Russia: he bent his wayward steps from north to south, as the whim seized him.” (86)

Jena is home of a university that served as a hub of early German Romanticism. In 1794, the poets Goethe and Schiller met at the university. Goethe was an important figure to Shelley and her Romantic circle. 

“After two years spent at Oxford, instead of remaining to take his degree, Fitzhenry made an earnest request to be permitted to visit his friend, who was then at Jena.” (86)

Established around 1096, Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest university in continuous operation in the whole world. Around the 19th century, students were required to take an exam in their first year that focused on classical languages. This further speaks to the aristocratic privilege Fitzhenry experienced — and, as he does not finish his degree, the little care he has for this access.