The theme of the American innocent abroad is as much a theme of American literature as it is British. It goes back to Mark Twain's novel Innocents Abroad (1869), and in Henry James's "Daisy Miller" (1878), Daisy dies because of her innocence. Yet Greene's novel is more sophisticated than a simple condemnation of American naivete. Even though Pyle is condemned, Fowler is far from exonerated. The story.....
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