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Summary: Comment
Review: Comment - Get rid of the first review! (from the Merriam Webster Dictionary). It completely gives away the ending of the book! This is a suspenseful book, and knowing how it all turns out in advance is not helpful!
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Summary: One of his best
Review: Not only does Greene manage to capture the heat and humidity of Africa with his brilliant writing, but he also tells the heartbreaking story of Scobie and his relationships. Quite amazing reading.
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Summary: the heart of the matter
Review: its was alright but i want other peoples feed bac
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Summary: Superb
Review: This is a superb novel by one of the finest authors in the English language. Beautifully written, skillfully rendered characters, and spiritually profound. Only Greene wrote novels like this treasure.
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Summary: Catholic guilt among other things
Review: This is a sad book. We watch the decline of a good man trapped in an impossible spiritual impasse. The book lays out, in lucid prose, all the fine moral lines faced by those with faith. Not only are we treated to the Catholic guilt of Scobie, who commits moral sins out of the need to help others, but we are shown the hypocrisy of his "good" Catholic wife--who follows all the rules but loves no one but herself. Pay special attention to the reactions of all the characters to Scobie's final action. They reveal all the complexity of the issues involved and all the blindness produced by human limitations. A terrific book that will leave you thinking, whether you're religious or not.
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Summary: I think it was a good story but dragged out too long.
Review: I liked the theme of this story alot but I had a hard time getting into the book. Mr. Greene really can't grab peoples attention on the spurr of the moment. Sure the title sounded good but it was hard to sit down long enough to get into it.
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Summary: Hardly Mr.Green's best!
Review: The Heart of the Matter tells the story of Scobie - a British Police officer working in West Africa. Green's novel debates, like a lot of his books, the Roman Catholic faith. Scobie has an affair and he feels the only way to escape life's difficulties is suicide, but of course suicide would mean eternal damnation. I disliked this book. I became a Graham Green fan after reading Brighton Rock and I felt this book looked interesting. I was mistaken. This was plot-wise almost deadening. As always Green's characterisations are fabulous. Scobie, his wife and Wilson are all fully developed and fully believable characters but they're not very interesting! The plot is pretentious. It is a simple short story plot dragged out to a novel's length. Overall it was a disappointment and would make me question Mr.Green as a writer.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Oh the moral dilemmas brought to bear in this most compelling of novels. Brilliant, simply brilliant.
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Summary: Scobie aims to manipulate women but the end is suicide.
Review: Mr.Scobie seemed perfect when I first read the book,but when I analyzed his character I found that he is too weak.He says that he loves failure but he faces it and he commits suicide.He always chooses weak people and tries to help them.For example, even though he didn't like Helen and Louise he pitied them.Louise he pitied because he had once been in love with her and Helen was a 19-year old widow.He felt responsible for everybody. I think that this is his fault because at the end all these troubles spoil his life.
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Summary: A very interesting morality play
Review: I thought this was an incredibly well written story of a man having to come to grasp with his faith and real life issues. Greene was very vivid in his description of the helplessness felt by Scobie, who represents everyman and can be identified today with other people in a dead end job and loveless marriage. While Scobie was flawed, Greene did a fine job of making him to be someone you could feel for, flaws and all. As a Catholic, I could understand the struggles to live one's life in line with Church rules, but I do not have quite the titanic struggle Scobie had. Book was very thought provoking and interesting.
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