A little Place Off the Edgware Road

Tuan Ahmad Hassanuddin Bin Tuan Arif (KETUA) Maxwell Elity Sulaiman (TIMBALAN) Muhammad Nur Aizat Kriscylla (Director) OBrien Dusip (Ahli Biasa) Evandes J. Raymond (Pen. Ahli Biasa)

Question
How does the writer present the main character? How does this help the reader form an opinion?

Authors Personal Life

Throughout Greenes life, he had numerous scandals with many women. He once compiled a list of the 47 prostitutes he could recall using in the 1920s and 1930s.

Personal Life
During his school time, he was badly bullied and he had made several attempts to suicide. He sat up one night trying to saw open his knee with a penknife. When that failed, he tried swallowing toxic substances, eye drops, hay fever drops, bleaching powder even deadly night shade leaves. When none of them killed him, he took 14 aspirins and plunged into the school swimming pool. His legs felt like lead but he did not drown.

Personal Life
All his life he sought out dangerous places and flirted with death, as though at war with himself. After several suicide attempts, Greene left school one day and wrote to his parents that he did not wish to return. This caused him to be sent to a therapist in London at age fifteen. His analyst, Kenneth Richmond, encouraged him to write and introduced him to his circle of literary friends which included the poet Walter de la Mare.

Personal Life
He was also an enthusiastic user of drugs and alcohol. He used to write two novels but none of it were successful. He separated from his wife in 1948 but they never divorced.

Influence of Greenes Life on his writing style .

Psychoanalytic
Work of literature that is correlated with its authors mental traits.

Defenses

Sexual Desire

Sexual Desire
Sometimes he secretly touched himself here and there with scent: it was one of his ugliest secrets.

Masturbation

Ugliest secrets.

He is a poor and lonely man and because of that he only can satisfy his sexual needs by masturbating.

 A young woman in a night dress seemed to be weeping in the arms of Roman centurion.

Night dress : Appealing to a man.

Roman centurion : Refers to a man Weeping : When a woman cry (helpless) it is a man duty to console/ comfort her [act of masculinity]

A few couples whispering with their head touching.

Whispering : We only whisper to someone those who we are close with. Head touching : It is a tendency and desire for couple to touch their partner.

Defenses
I wont go mad. I wont go mad. Im sane. I

wont go mad.
Denial
Psycho

Madman would not admit that he is a madman.

Authors personal life.

Bipolar disorder

Literary Criticism

Marxism
All that a poor man could get was lust. Love needed a good suit, a car, a flat somewhere, or a good hotel.
Socio economic status
Poor man Could not fulfill of desire Rich man Could fulfill of desire easily and happily.

A young woman in a night dress seemed to be weeping in the arms of Roman centurion
Roman centurion
High status He could get anything he desire.

Greene believes that in order to achieve happiness in life, he needs to be wealthy.

With his career as writer, he managed to earn money from his book and at the same time he also married with his wife.However he has many love affairs with other women to accompany him but never divorce his wife.
It portrays in the below evidence:-All the way up the Park he

was reminded of passion, but you needed money for love. All that a poor man could get was lust. Love needed a good suit, a car, a flat somewhere, or a good hotel. It needed to be wrapped in cellophane . (Pg27,p2 )

Feminism
Pompilia betrayed by her beloved Augustus seeks an end to her troubles.
Betrayal

Women are weak and could be easily discriminated by the man (stronger gender).

Man take advantage An end Women tend to give up their life easily ( weak, helpless)

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