Brighton Rock (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Brighton, England
- Principal Characters: Pinkie Brown (the Boy), Ida Arnold, Rose, Fred Hale, Colleoni, Spicer, Cubitt, Dallow
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Crime or criminals, Sin or Original sin, 1930’s, God, England or English people, Violence, Christianity, Good and evil, Ethics, Gangsters, Organized crime
- Locales: Brighton, England
The Novel
In his introduction, Graham Greene notes that Brighton Rock “began as a detective novel,” but readers and critics of the work soon realize that in the development of the central character, Pinkie Brown, and in the reversal of the hunt for the victim, Fred Hale, Greene has provided yet another of his studies of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
Against the lively backdrop of a Bank Holiday, which brings happy tourists to the seaside resort, Greene presents the frightened Fred Hale. The first words establish the...
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