英美短篇小_说Unit_8_Across_the_bridge教材教学课件.pptVIP

——Graham Greene;Graham Greene;Graham Greene;Graham Greene;Graham Greene; As a writer Greene was very prolific and versatile. Many of his novels are based on his own experiences as an agent in the British Foreign Office. The Asian settings also stimulated Greene’s many novels. He wrote 5 dramas and screenplays for several films based on his novels. Greene’s film reviews are still worth reading and often better than the film he praised or slashed. Although Greene knew that some critics considered his novels entertainment, his own models were Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford. In his personal library was a large collection of James’s work.; Perhaps the ultimate moralist thriller-writer, Greene had a facility for combing literary observation with populist plot, and himself divided his books into serious fiction and “entertainments”. Evelyn Waugh, also a famous English writer, singled out for praise the new coolly cinematic quality of his style, but he is now most known for a sort of atheistic Catholicism. ;Introduction of the story ; Two detectives enter the village looking for Calloway, but though they have several conversations with the con-man, they never realize he is their quarry. Meanwhile, Calloway, overcome by homesickness for America, manages to get himself secreted across the border. In the end, Calloway is killed by the detectives’ car, apparently while trying to save the dog’s life. The narrator claims to find something comic in the end of Calloway’s life. He writes “Death doesn’t change comedy to tragedy.” The reader is left to evaluate the meaning of this statement and to weigh both the tragic and the comic elements of the story. ;;Plot ;;;Personality of Calloway;;;;Writing features ;;Irony used in the novel ;;;;Discussion ;The end