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As a story-teller Graham Greene describes the interior narrative of conscience with the political and psychological narrative in The Quiet American. The book contains more direct reportage of 'The Third World' than in any other his novels. Using his protagonist's immediate, first-person narrative, Greene introduces a more vivid perspective which moves between the antagonist's own innocent fanaticism and the protagonist's realistic view of the warfare in Vietnam. Greene's first person narrative is well suited to the aim of exposing America's desire to dominate the world by supporting Pyle. the antagonist. Greene shows us abstract opinions and concrete reportage. For him to presume is to be blind; to report is to remain sensitive to empirical reality. As he tells us about the well intentioned but dangerously innocent American, Pyle, whose absorption in the dilemmas of Democracy and the responsibilities of the West leads him to the Cao Dai General The to murder many guiltless people, Fowler's passivity turns into involvement. But he hides the part he plays in Pyle's assassination. Even though the Catholic Church plays a great role in the Vietnam War, Greene does not describe much about Catholicism in The Quiet American than in any other his Catholic novels. He just uses Catholicism as a means of mobilization. To him sin is identifiable with moral evil and becomes reprehensible when it is a deed done consciously in deliberate disobedience to one's conscience. Greene has great versatility as a writer. He is not content with writing novels for the limited purpose of moral, hut has a moral vision in a much wider sense, accepting life in all aspects. Actually The Quiet American was the beginning of Greene's political works. The romantic love story is only a background of political intrigue in it. He describes the specific conditions of our times; his novels show us the unchangeable human nature and also the comtemporary situation with its own unique features.