5/20/2023 0 Comments Greene heart of the matter![]() ![]() ![]() Her hopes that the local British community will begin to accept her. ![]() ![]() Scobie is passed over yet again for a promotion toĬommissioner, causing Louise great distress, both for her personal ambition and Although he firmly believes in the teachings ofĬatholicism, his practice of his faith is largely superficial. Louise is a devout Catholic, and for her sake ScobieĬonverted to Catholicism. Louise calls Scobie “ Ticki,” although it’s apparent that he dislikes the They had a daughter, Catherine, who died at Responsible for Louise's happiness, but does not love her, and is unable to Is married to Louise, a solitary woman who loves literature and poetry but Providing both local and wartime security as well as controlling smuggling. Henry Scobie is a long-serving police inspector in a BritishĬolonial town on the West Coast of Africa during World War II, responsible for Have to feel pity even for the planets? If one reached what they called the If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one Although the location is not mentioned in the novel, Greene mentionsīook's title appears about halfway through the novel in the following passage: Greene was a British intelligence officer stationed in Freetown, Sierra With Catholicism and moral change in the protagonist, Scobie Novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. War II, Greene worked for the Secret Intelligence Service in Sierra Leone, Is a novel by British author Graham Greene. ![]()
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