This post contains spoilers for The White Lotus (season one). I recently watched season one of The White Lotus and I’ve been curious how it fits into what I’ll call “hotel art”. In art, hotels can represent a variety of things. As liminal spaces and access points to new worlds, they can be sites of growth, of engaging with new people and ideas (as in E. M. Forster’s
This was an interesting perspective and read! Your argument also made me think about how hotels are also literally fake homes we live in for short periods of time, and how in these works the characters are often seeking a feeling of “home” and safety, but trying to find home and take refuge in things like addiction, wealth, etc turns out to instead be destructive.
This was an interesting perspective and read! Your argument also made me think about how hotels are also literally fake homes we live in for short periods of time, and how in these works the characters are often seeking a feeling of “home” and safety, but trying to find home and take refuge in things like addiction, wealth, etc turns out to instead be destructive.