The Quiet American Summary
Graham Greene

Biography EssayGraham Greene was a writer who lived his life under the torment of faith. In his fictional world, where evil dominates, good-bad men are put in situations where their individual capacit... Read more

A film actor who has found success in both Canada and the United States, Graham Greene (born ca. 1952) is a full-blood Oneida, born on the Six Nations Reserve in southwestern Ontario in the early 1950... Read more

Graham Greene is a writer who, like Fëdor Dostoevski, has lived his life under the torment of faith. When the priestly Alyosha Karamazov kisses his brother, the skeptical Ivan, at the end of the... Read more

Much of what is known of Graham Greene's life, character, and reading is found in his essays. As he himself points out, almost half of Ways of Escape (1980), the second volume of his autobiography, is... Read more

Books were a lifelong passion for Graham Greene. Book collecting, the ownership of books, and writing in books absorbed Greene, who haunted the auction rooms and secondhand bookshops of provincial Eng... Read more

The Quiet American, by Graham Greene, revolves around the relationship between two men in the midst of the French-Vietnamese conflict. Fowler is an experienced reporter who doesn't believe in God and ... Read more

In "The Quiet American", Pyle, through little and big actions, exhibited desire to make the world a better place. From his devotion to the well been of Vietnam and its people, to his genuine love for ... Read more

Fowler, as the protagonist in "The Quiet American", originally considered himself detached, calculated, and an objective observer. However, confronted with the consequences of war, Fowler was forced o... Read more

"The Quiet American" exemplifies how the ideas of `good' and `bad' are closely interwoven. The duality of innocence and corruption, idealism and reality is mainly personified in Pyle and Fowler. The c... Read more