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Travels With My Aunt is Graham Greene s first person narration of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager who  meets his 70-ish year old Aunt Augusta for the first time, at his mother s funeral. A sequence of events leads Henry s bland, distilled water life to be intertwined with his Aunt s somewhat eccentric and from his view, amoral lifestyle. This fateful reunion with his aunt causes Henry to reconsider the life he had been living for the past fifty odd years.
Of Graham Greene s numerous works, I do believe Travels With My Aunt is underrated. Most have passed off Travels as mere light entertainment, or does not carry enough weight to be taken into serious consideration.
He categorized his works early on into novels and entertainments . Novels tended to carry serious weight premier travel inn metro glasgow scotland on philosophical, religious, premier travel inn metro glasgow scotland and moral issues, while the later satiated his readers desire for thrillers and a good laugh. And Greene was one heck of a thriller writer, what with his experiences in the MI6, travels, his brushes with death, and somewhat lurid lifestyle. Stamboul Train (The Orient Express) and Our Man in Havana are some of his best entertainments.
As if a novel had to be serious to be given critical merit! I ll be honest to say that this novel has the depth equivalent of The Power and The Glory (of which has been considered one of his most important works, amongst his Catholic novels), even if it is told in a much lighter tone than Power .
Greene s writing progressed, and eventually he stopped labeling his novels into the two categories. This was where we got novels like The Quiet American , and yes, Travels With My Aunt, which was often a blend of edge-of-your-seat entertainment that got you stirred on questions on morality, the human condition, and the consequences of an individual s decisions.
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