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| Article Name : | | | PITY: THE OBSESSIONAL THEME A STUDY OF GRAHAM GREENE'S THE HEART OF THE MATTER | | Author Name : | | | ALKA SAROHA AND S. K. VASISHTA | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2316 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Graham Greene in his novel The Heart of the Matter deals with the theme of pity. He has given us one of the most intuitive analysis of the emotion of pity as an obsession in the portrayal of Scobie. Scobie's relationships are all based on pity. He is a weak man with good intentions doomed by his big sense of pity. Each character in the novel, be it Scobie or Wilson, fails in their ultimate goals by the end of the book. Scobie's ultimate sacrifice, suicide, fails to bring the expected happiness he imagines it will to his wife. The Heart of the Matter is not just about failure, but about the price we all pay for our individualism and the impossibility of truly understanding another person | | Keywords : | | |
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