Short Story Analysis: The End of the Party by Graham.
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The End of the Affair is also unusual for a Greene novel in being a first-person rather than third-person narrative (his previous book, The Third Man (1950) was told in the first person, but this was a novella worked up from his script of the famous 1949 film directed by Carol Reed). Bendrix does most of the storytelling, in Parts One, Two, Four and Five of the novel, but Book Three, crucial.
Life and Work of Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. He was born on October 2, 1904, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in England. He was one of six children.
Graham Greene, in full Henry Graham Greene, (born October 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England—died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switzerland), English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life’s moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings.
The End of the Party Written by: Graham Greene The End of the Party Major Characters: Peter Morton Francis Morton Mrs. Henne-Falcon Joyce Mabel Warren Peter and Francis are identical twins. Peter woke early in anticipation of the party they would attend later that day. He watched his brother sleep noting that it was like looking in a mirror.
Graham Greene was a prolific letter writer, and maintained close friendships with some of the most influential writers of his time. Two of the writers who most influenced him were T. S. Eliot, author of The Waste Land (1921), and Herbert Read. Both wrote poetry and critical essays that addressed the calamity of the First World War and art’s role in modern society.
The gang met every morning in an impromptu car-park, the site of the last bomb of the first blitz. The leader, who was known as Blackie, claimed to have heard it fall, and no one was precise enough in his dates to point out that he would have been one year old and fast asleep on the down platform of Wormsley Common Underground Station.