Elizabeth Gilbert’s Journey for True Happiness First Elizabeth Gilbert focused on enjoying pleasures of everyday life she most to experience while staying in Italy. Gilbert established that the pleasures she would focus on would be learning how to speak Italian and to enjoy all the great food Italy had to offer her. Gilbert writes, “This much I do know-I’m exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions. By the time I left for Italy, my body and spirit were depleted. I felt like the soil on some desperate sharecropper’s farm, sorely overworked and needing a fallow season. So that’s why I’ve quit” (66). Liz became extremely tired of the life that she had back in New York. She did not like who she
