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How Does Graham Green use detail to create atmosphere in his short stories? Graham Greene uses detail very effectively throughout the story the Basement room. At the start of the story he describes the hall as a "Dark and heavy hall". This immediately creates atmosphere making the hall seem gloomy and it makes you feel emotionally heavy the hall kind of weighs on you. The very start of the story gives you a depressing feeling of the house. Graham Greene uses great detail at the beginning of the story, for example, "the rack of pipes in the smoking room beside the elephant tusks" and "the carved wood tobacco jar". This shows close detail about one of the rooms in the house, probably Phillip's father's room. Also towards the end of the story when Phillip is adventuring by him self in the garden it says "two illuminated eyes peered out at...

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