The Quiet American

Graham Green’s novel, The Quiet American takes place in Vietnam as the French Colonization of the country is coming closer to an end. It is a time where the American’s are beginning to arrive in Vietnam with hope of ending the colonization while attempting to “protect” the south from communism and the ever-dreaded “Domino Theory”. Within this one novel, Graham Greene has different stories and can capture diverse readers. One story tells a love story between two people from different cultures, another is a tale of a love triangle between two friends and the single woman who comes between them, and there is the story of war, conspiracies, betrayal and murder. I feel that each of the characters in the novels can represent something else and the characters have many different personalities.

The Quiet American is a story about a British reporter living in Vietnam during the beginning of the United States involvement with the