6/9/2023 0 Comments The quiet american authorBy the end of the novel, we learn that Pyle's American optimism has been his undoing but equally dangerous is Fowler's feigned journalistic distance - "I preferred the title of reporter. The novel is written from the point of view of a jaded British foreign correspondent and Saigon resident, Thomas Fowler and chronicles his relationship with American diplomat, Alden Pyle, who arrives in Vietnam full of the idealism of democracy, intent on teaching a foreign nation a better way of doing things that is, the American way. The novel - set in 1950s Vietnam, is carefully balanced by the weight of the authority of an author who worked as a correspondent in Vietnam between 1951-1954. It marks Graham Greene as one of the greatest journalists of his generation. The Quiet American is an important novel essentially, it is a love story but it is also a scathing critique of US meddling in the internal affairs of nations and people it knows nothing about.
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