Babylon Revisited In this story Babylon represents Paris, Babylon was known as a sinful city. Drinking, sex, drugs, bad behavior etc... like Los Vegas. The character “Charlie” is revisiting Paris; in doing so he is practically revisiting his past. The story begins in a Ritz bar, the Ritz bar was very crowded and full of Americans before the stock market crash in 1929, but now the bar is very empty because all the Americans who went there have left to go home to due to money problems. I thought integrity was one of the mercy court values ​​associated with the story because Charlie was very honest about his past life, he admitted to being an alcoholic and gave up his drunken life to have his daughter live with him. Charlie is 35 years old. years old and he is handsome, he was an alcoholic, but he has been sober for more than a year and a half, everything in Paris seems different to him because he no longer drinks and no longer has the money he used to have. «He was thirty-five years old and beautiful to look at. The Irish mobility of his face was sobered by a deep wrinkle between the eyes. When he rang his brother-in-law's doorbell in the rue Palatine, the wrinkle deepened until his eyebrows drooped; he felt a cramping sensation in his stomach. From behind the maid who opened the door darted an adorable nine-year-old girl who shouted "Daddy!" and flew, struggling like a fish, into his arms. She pulled his head by the ear and put her cheek against his” (1840-1841). Charlie is trying to slow down his life and not live fast. “I was amazed at how much she grew in ten months” (1841). Now he is a businessman, he no longer lives in Paris, he lives in Prague, but he is visiting Paris to see his daughter, he hasn't seen her... middle of paper... I'm still thinking how it will take a long time before he stops being punished by his past lifestyle. In the end Charlie still showed his integrity because he could have turned around and started drinking again but he only had one drink like he promised himself he would drink every day, and because he wanted to prove to his sister-in-law that he is not the same person anymore. He did everything he could to get his daughter to move in with him. In conclusion, the story applies to one of the values ​​of the court of mercy which is integrity, which means that Charlie was very honest about what he wanted to do for his daughter and admits that he used to be an alcoholic and regret his life who led and that's why he's sober now. Reference Fitzgerald, Scott F. “Babylon Revisited.” Loeffelholz, Mary. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: Norton & Company , 1931. 1839-1853.