The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak
In paragraph 2, the role of cynicism and idealism in Fulghum’s Credo-writing process is naive, but the whole credo of idealism has sense and over the years has grown into cynicism.