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The Heart of the Matter.” Studies on English Language & Literature. 31.1(2005): 103-119. The purpose of this paper is to examine Graham Greene’s imperial viewpoints in The Heart of the Matter. In this novel, as is the case in most of Greene's works, the setting is a foreign land(Africa) and realistically described. But the real people and places of Africa are of minor significance and denounced as insects, human rats, and the land which drives a man off his head. And the main character, Scobie, is the man who has “a terrible sense of pity and responsibility.” He can’t shut his eyes or his ears to any human need of him. But the word ‘pity’ is “the expression of an almost monstrous pride” for the people who are of low social position. Therefore we can say that Greene has the viewpoints of western imperialist illusions.