I want to begin this essay by pointing out what I think has become a salient feature, or at least significant trend, in contemporary British and American literary fiction: namely, a prominent reappearance of the ostensibly redundant omniscient narrator. Their devious inclination of achieving freedom and bringing democracy for those suffering nations which eventually turns to nothing except death and destruction.
The researcher also scrutinizes the text to expose Washington decision makers’ policy in dealing with third world countries. They interpreted the meaning through ‘resymbolization,’ which has turned the main character – the American young diplomat, to a patriotic literary hero. Meanwhile it displays the varied Americans responses to the text and how particular responses twisted the genuine intention of the author. This paper attempts to analyse the novel concentrating on the message Greene intended through unveiling that historical fact. They wanted to stop communism from spreading widely and reducing its role in the East. The book reflects that this action was not out of American government concern about Vietnamese people themselves but merely a political foreign affair. The role the Americans played in arousing an inner political crisis in the country previous to her military invention. The novel deals with the interference of the United States in Vietnam ten years before Vietnam’s war. The Quiet American (1955) could be considered as one of Graham Greene’s most distinguished books it is an epochal novel written during the phase of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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