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Fowler's View On Vietnam

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Fowler’s Perspective on Vietnam In Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, Thomas Fowler, the British protagonist who is reporting on the war, has a more justified view on the conflict in Vietnam because he knows that they do not care about Western ideas and are only focused on returning to their normal lives. Pyle, an American working with the Economic Aid Mission, is concerned for the Vietnamese, asserting that “they don’t want Communism [because] they’ll be forced to believe what they are told, they won’t be able to think for themselves” since this is what he has read in books about the situation in the Far East by famous American authors (Greene 86). Pyle assumes that the Vietnamese are fighting against communism, and worries that they will

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