Pyle dreamt of a „third force“ in the conflict of Indochina – a fact that may have been one reason for the murder. The Quiet American tells the story of a young american, Pyle, working for the CIA, who is murdered in order of Thomas Fowler, a british war correspondent in Saigon.
This novel is probably the one closest to reality that Greene ever wrote. It is always a little strange for a literary student to look for similarities in the story described in the book and the authors life, because there may be none - in this case it seemed useful to do since Graham Greene himself went to Indochina often times as a correspondent, and a correspondent in Indochina is the main character in the novel „The quiet american“.ĭuring my research and writing this homework I realised that this is not the only similarity between the novel and reality. After all that is not the topic of this essay. Because catholicism is mentioned every few pages. In the analysis of this novel there is a lot of ways of looking at it, even from the religious p.o.v.
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