Marcus Graham

On the face of it, gun for sale by Graham Greene thriller genre featuring a crime committed by a confessed and declared villain, followed by a police chase. In the hands of a great writer, however, clicheds, even as it can be transformed into a deep satisfying novels.

First published in 1936, a gun sale is located in a Europe that the war stops, and threatening jobs, casting a shadow of fear and even depression over all human interaction. Graham Greene appears to use this context to enable the work to make a significant, but not very subtle, an assertion that conflicts, even conflicts as major wars, are pursued by interest instigated by an intention profit. The grandest of the conflict, the greater the potential gain. As individuals vie for influence, importance, control and domination, do societies, groups, companies, even countries. And some of the protagonists play dirty, rarely receiving the deserved justice. When they do, we are happy, feeling the same accuracy could lead a happy ending.

A Gun for Sale has several important people, more than one examination may list. Raven is the first we meet, the blackness of his name immediately suggest a feature of the plot, because it is the anti-hero, a mercenary who has completed the sale in the bloody pages of the book. Hare lips and still resentful of his disfigurement, both physical and, after a painful education, psychological, he suggested a figure that the reader might be prompted to despise, perhaps a scarecrow pantomime fiction gender, always accompanied by a threat fanfare mark.

But Graham Greene is not a fashionable writer. We finally come to know and Raven. Although we are never invited to like him, we became friends with his situation, except by virtue of the fact that there are apparent social heroes who actually is a darn sight more worthy of our contempt . Raven is a double-play and tries to trace the author of his humiliation.

Raven leaves a trace and a policeman, Mather, resumed the pursuit. Luckily Mather girlfriend, Anne, boards the train as Raven Nottwich London, an industrial city were she will appear in the chorus line of a pantomime. Raven and Anne meet and, given the distance of the prosecutor, become accomplices.

Copper colleagues Mather, Sanders is an interesting movie Raven. Both are disfigured. Raven problem is the appearance and he aspires to get rid of the cleft palate that disfigures his face, disfigurement, Anne plays down, thus causing his confidence. The policeman, Sanders, on the other hand, stammers. He is quick of mind, but no voice, and is aware that his disability cost him promotion.

Mr. Davis, also known as Cholmondley, among other things, fat is the servant employed by Sir Marcus. This is an industrialist, owner of a steelworks in Nottwich, a company that has seen better days. Mr. Davis is a right CAD, the scene of young girls as fair game, regularly pick up and persuade them in the filthy room he rents from a couple really surreal to protect its reputation. The Freemason Sir Marcus is barely clinging to life, but retains sufficient pride, or malice, perhaps, to inflict untold suffering on others simply to preserve his own status in a future that it does not.

And if Raven continues Cholmondley, which meets Marcus. Mather and Saunders continue Raven, and Anne seems to be on the side of each. And everything works.

But Graham Greene did much more than tell a story. With simple language and structure, and a plot that would have the grace of a B-movie at best, he enters the psyche of his characters, localizes in the class and history, and manage.