![]() ![]() Fowler's first act of betrayal is toward Phuong- as he conceals from her the fact that his wife- in England- will not free him. They have only one thing in common-Fowler's mandarin mistress Phuong whom Pyle is ready to marry. It is in Salgon where he is stationed as a reporter that he meets Alden Pyle of the American Economic Mission, an innocent and an idealist, who belongs to ""a psychological world of great simplicity, where you talked of Democracy and Honor without the 'u'"". Tom Fowler tells the story, in an attempt to exercise his guilt, and Fowler is an Englishman, a man of middle years, of few scruples, of even less courage, and disillusioned to the point of diffidence. ![]() ![]() is a disquieting examination of a central, contemporary issue, and substitutes political conscience for the spiritual concern of Greene's recent vela but the battleground is still a highly personal terrain- and an individual is the chief casualty. ![]()
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