";s:4:"text";s:4142:" Good Vs. Immediately before this we are told (p. 130): Though, it seems, Pinkie is occasionally (if briefly) able to leave Brighton, Brighton cannot be taken out of him. The sea moves in and out relentlessly. Questions may be very open, leaving you to supply your own agenda or plan (quite hard) or may indicate an outline to follow. The comparison is interesting, as it is meant to give an insight into Pinkie's fear of Rose's attitude. We learn that some rock is for sale cheaply because it has been broken (in the kiosk) by "some clumsy fools" (Pinkie and his gang, with Hale). We know that Pinkie and his gang believe they have killed him, yet are puzzled by the different conclusion of the coroner. Look out for other occasions where cars are used to suggest Pinkie's poverty and the luxury of others' lives. God couldn’t escape the evil mouth which chose to eat its own damnation. (p. 228) But as he looks back on his brief courtship of Rose, Pinkie has his chance. ...Spicer should be respectful. The reader sees that Pinkie is like Faustus: he has tried to make a deal, accepting his own damnation, in return for some advantage in this world. There may be heaven though he can form no idea of it; but he has a vivid idea of hell: "Of course there's Hell. As she looks at Maisie on the other side of Snow's window (p. 194), she cannot return to the "Eden of ignorance".
That’s what she talks about. The promenade and the piers, dedicated to amusement, parting people from small amounts of money saved, patiently, from what they have earned through real work are artificial, a veneer on reality, as it were. For the crowds of holiday-makers or day-trippers on bank-holidays they are a delightful illusion of the good life: Greene indicates here how the crowd almost force themselves into a sense of enjoyment, as this is the only diversion they can know. Giving access to thoughts, with explanatory comment, Greene enables the reader to achieve imaginative sympathy with characters (Pinkie, Rose, Ida) whose views the author in no sense endorses. Behind this question (impossible to answer certainly) lie many other questions: is the novelist merely documenting typical events naturalistically (what you mean when you say realistically) or is he trying to interpret/ make sense of the world by means of fiction? 2 Analysis 2.1 Pinkie’s View of the World. Growing more furious,