The Hint of an Explanation (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: December, 1948
- Setting: A train traveling from Scotland to England
- Principal Characters: The unnamed narrator, David, Blacker
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1940’s, Religion, God, England or English people, Good and evil, Revenge, Trains, Catholics or Catholic Church, Scotland or Scottish people, Priests, Atheism
- Locales: England, Scotland
The Story
On a long train journey from Scotland to England, the unnamed narrator listens to another traveler, a man named David, tell about an incident in his childhood that gave him a hint of an explanation about God's mysterious ways. The narrator (who resembles Graham Greene during his agnostic days at Oxford University) says that he has a certain intuition, which he does not trust, founded as it is on childish experiences and needs, that God exists, and that he is surprised occasionally into belief by the extraordinary coincidences that people encounter in life, like...
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