The Quiet American Essay
The book Quiet American is a great book. Author Graham Greene uses the Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle to represent a great picture. In the interactions among these characters, he is simplifying the situation in Vietnam into a personal model to be viewed.
Graham Greene developed the attitude and personalities of his characters almost to be a condensed legend of the countries they represented. The actions and the opinions formed on them by others, was a reflection of the general feeling overall in Vietnam.
Alden Pyle is the Quiet American that sent to Vietnam with others. He is quiet because he is innocent, neutral party coming to aid by selling plastic. He has a good reputation and he is very curt and proper. Author tries to represent the character as United States. Pyle as an individual reflects America as a whole as they were seen as ignorantly trying …show more content…
Phuong and the majority of Vietnam know nothing but their simple existence. They farm their rice paddies; they sustain themselves that is all they know. They don’t care about who is killed and who is going to win the war. They don’t care how the war is going to affect most of the country.
Thomas Fowler is the main character in The Quiet American and he is the embodiment of his homeland. Green is portraying England’s views of the situation in Vietnam through the eyes of their representative, Fowler. Fowler is not very fond of Pyle and sees his actions as cold and cruel. And yet perhaps as England, he is trying to not get involved in emotions of the situation as he claims Phuong is needed by him as only a sexual object.
In my opinion, I don’t think Fowler on either side of the war. He is just trying to report what is happening in the war. The author has pointed out some kind of dissention between England and United States with the love triangle set up between the two and
Graham Greene developed the attitude and personalities of his characters almost to be a condensed legend of the countries they represented. The actions and the opinions formed on them by others, was a reflection of the general feeling overall in Vietnam.
Alden Pyle is the Quiet American that sent to Vietnam with others. He is quiet because he is innocent, neutral party coming to aid by selling plastic. He has a good reputation and he is very curt and proper. Author tries to represent the character as United States. Pyle as an individual reflects America as a whole as they were seen as ignorantly trying …show more content…
Phuong and the majority of Vietnam know nothing but their simple existence. They farm their rice paddies; they sustain themselves that is all they know. They don’t care about who is killed and who is going to win the war. They don’t care how the war is going to affect most of the country.
Thomas Fowler is the main character in The Quiet American and he is the embodiment of his homeland. Green is portraying England’s views of the situation in Vietnam through the eyes of their representative, Fowler. Fowler is not very fond of Pyle and sees his actions as cold and cruel. And yet perhaps as England, he is trying to not get involved in emotions of the situation as he claims Phuong is needed by him as only a sexual object.
In my opinion, I don’t think Fowler on either side of the war. He is just trying to report what is happening in the war. The author has pointed out some kind of dissention between England and United States with the love triangle set up between the two and