Graham Greene was an author who was fortunate not only to achieve critical acclaim, but also to be popular through his writings , despite the unavoidable Catholic motif of some of his most notable novels. The notion of good and evil, and the interaction between them in his stories, is central to his conception of what he believes his adopted religion represents. However, his thoughts on morality and the acts of kindness that humans are capable of in their lives are not mere repetitions of Catholic teachings on these subjects. His work does not read like propaganda. In fact, people seem to view religion as "a disease" in his stories, almost unintentionally. Believing in a God is not achieving salvation. The atheist character is not necessarily the bad guy, while the Catholic character is often one of the most sinful of all. To demonstrate this, I chose to discuss The End of the Affair, a novel in which the subject of God appears unexpectedly in the middle of a plot that describes a former lover of a married woman attempting to discover his last infidelity, and Power and Glory. , the story of an unnamed Mexican state's last priest fleeing a prohibitive secular government. These are interesting examples of Greene's purported views on good and evil, because they both contain instances in which the former can very often be discovered among many examples of the latter, and as such both do not seem never mutually exclusive. They also both explain both concepts within a Catholic framework, not allowing any other form of society to dictate their meaning. I wish to relate this, as others have, to the time in which these novels were published, either during or after World War II, a par...... middle of paper .... .. is good and evil, and while aware of a moral code, is unable to follow it. This is considered a condition of being human and absolutely does not condemn any character who sins, as long as he understands that he has sinned. Those who do not are ridiculous, half-human characters who must be pitied and prayed for until they realize the error of their ways.BibliographyPrimary TextsGreene, Graham. The End of the Affair, (Vintage: London, 2004)Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory (Vintage: London, 2001) Secondary texts Burgess, Anthony. “Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 2, n° 2, Literature and society. (April 1967), pp.93-99Gorra, Michael. “On the End of the Affair,” Southwest Review 89.1 (Winter 2004) pp.109-125 Hoggart, Richard. “The force of caricature”, Essays on Criticism III (1953) pp..447-462