Graham Greene's "The Quiet American"

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"The character of the "Quiet American," Pyle in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American, has the best of motives in carrying out U.S. policy in Vietnam, but he nevertheless ends up as the servant of forces which bring little but corruption and destruction. This study will examine the character of Pyle, his activities in Indo-China, the policy he believes himself to be carrying out, and the actual results of that policy and his actions.

These factors are reported more or less objectively by Fowler, a reporter who is supposed to be serving not a corrupt and corrupting governmental policy, but instead the truth, or at least the truth as he sees it. Complicating the relationship between Pyle and Fowler are two important factors. First, Pyle, before his death, has taken as his mistress the woman who was.."

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