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Originally Posted by gmw
. Not only am I much less inclined to think well of Greene for what seems to me to be cheating (in so many senses it's amazing/appalling/something), but I think this book was a horrible thing to do to Catherine and Harry. Parallels are/were obviously going to be drawn between the fictional and real protagonists, and I think it is quite cruel for him to set them up this way. (Even if the affair was not public knowledge at this point, Catherine and presumably several others - given how indiscreet Greene was - would have known and drawn their own conclusion.) My regard for Greene is sinking pretty steadily.
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In terms of parallels, it seems reminiscent of Maurice telling Henry he’d gone to the PI, and giving him the report of Sarah’s affair, which I thought was Maurice’s most selfish, despicable act in the book.