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'It is clear from reading Graham Greene's short stories that his imagination is best stimulated by the imperfections of human nature' - Apply this quotation to some of the stories you have read.
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'It is clear from reading Graham Greene's short stories that his imagination is best stimulated by the imperfections of human nature.' Apply this quotation to some of the stories you have read. In his short stories, Graham Green does indeed appear to pick on the imperfections of human nature as a foundation for his short stories a good example of this is in The Destructors where Trevor has an overwhelming desire to destroy Old Misery's house and see his entire world come crashing down with his house. When applying this quote to his short stories, you realise that in most of the short stories, there is at least one character that has a very noticeable imperfection that Graham Greene picks on. In The Destructors, Greene uses the arrival of Trevor to herald the beginning of the new regime for the gang. Trevor's passive-aggressive nature is really brought into the open when he...
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