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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The End of the Party"
    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The End of the Party"
    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The End of the Party"
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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The End of the Party"

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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The End of the Party", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781535846127
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      A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The End of the Party" - Gale

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      The End of the Party

      Graham Greene

      1931

      Introduction

      The End of the Party is a celebrated short story written by English novelist Graham Greene in 1929. Counted as an enduring classic of gothic literature, the story has been reprinted and anthologized many times since its initial publication. Complex of theme but simple of language, the tale is equally accessible to teenagers and adults and enjoyed by both for its elements of social nuance and psychological horror.

      The End of the Party is one of dozens of unnerving short stories conceived by Greene in his expansive career, in a medium he cherished for its relative brevity and directness of intent. The narrative touches upon such compelling themes as social isolation, the intensity of fraternal connection, and the irrational, paralyzing fears of childhood. Greene's protagonists, identical twins Peter and Francis Morton, are adrift in a world unsympathetic, and at times openly hostile, to the depth and delicacy of their connection. In this foreboding masterpiece of terror, Peter struggles in vain to protect Francis from both known threats and an impending, invisible doom.

      Greene conceived of and wrote the story in 1929 and in 1931 published it in the London Mercury periodical. It has since been anthologized in such collections as Greene's acclaimed Twenty-One Stories (1954) and his Complete Short Stories (2005).

      Author Biography

      Henry Graham Greene was born on October 2, 1904, to an educated, middle-class family in the English township of Berkhamsted. The middle child of five siblings, Greene expressed feelings of disconnect from his father, an overworked schoolmaster, and his mother, a woman he revered for her grace and her aloof, unfathomable bearing. He fell in love with reading as an early adolescent during a protracted stay with his uncle and soon became a voracious consumer of the adventure and fantasy stories of his day. Greene proved an indifferent, even hostile student while enrolled at his father's school and chafed under feelings of perceived isolation from

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