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He says, "A two-hundred pound bomb does not discriminate. How many dead colonels justify a child's or a trishaw driver's death when you are building a national democratic front" (Greene 163). Fowler may not believe in God but he seems more moral than Pyle who is idealistic and seems like he believes anything any one will tell him. Maybe that is why he is the one who believes in God and religion in the book. He believes what he reads, and he reads a lot so he has probably read the Bible and believes everything in it. Fowler is a reporter, and he has seen a lot of life so he questions things more closely. He does not just believe every thing he reads because he is a writer and he makes stuff up. So, he knows better than to just believe what you see in print. He may be unhappy but he is smart and he is also life-smart. Pyle is not, and that is what gets him killed in the end.
The Quiet American" focuses on the story of Vietnam before America got involved in the war, and the lives of three very different people. They are all unique personalities, and they all end up sadly. Pyle is murdered, Fowler gets his divorce but he knows he can never make Phuong as happy as Pyle could have, and that he will...
Fowler knows that he is responsible for Pyle's death, even though he did not kill him himself. It is a sad book, and it is sad for Vietnam too, because the fighting continued for a long time, and many more innocent people died for nothing. Fowler's life is nothing, because he is still not happy. His last thought in the book is "Everything had gone right with me since he had died, but how I wished there existed someone to whom I could say that I was sorry" (Greene 189). It is a sad story, and it shows that religion is not everything. Pyle believes in God and the righteousness of what he is doing, but he is an immoral man. Fowler does not believe in God or his mercy, but he is more moral than Pyle because he can see what he does wrong, and he can feel bad about it.
References
Gaston, Georg M.A. The Pursuit of Salvation: A Critical Guide to the Novels of Graham Greene. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1984.
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
Neilson, Jim. Warring Fictions: American Literary Culture and the Vietnam War Narrative. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
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