Graham Greene was an author who was fortunate enough not only to be critically acclaimed but also to be popular through his writings, despite the inevitable Catholic motif of some of his most enduring novels. The notion of good and evil and the interaction between them in his narratives is central to his concept of what he believes his adopted religion represents. However, his reflections on morality and the acts of goodness that human beings are capable of in their lives are not simple repetitions of Catholic teachings on the subject. His work doesn't look like propaganda. Indeed, in his stories people seem to consider religion as "an illness", almost reluctantly. Believing in a God is not achieving salvation. The atheist character is not necessarily the bad one, while the Catholic character is often among the most sinful of all. To demonstrate this, I have chosen to talk about The End of an Affair, a novel in which the subject of God appears unexpectedly in the middle of a plot describing a married woman's ex-lover who attempts to discover her latest infidelity, and The Power and the Glory, the story of the last priest of an unnamed Mexican state fleeing a prohibitively secular government. They are interesting examples of Greene's supposed views on good and evil because they both contain examples where the former can very often be discovered amidst numerous examples of the latter, and as such the two never appear to be mutually exclusive. Both also explain the two concepts in a Catholic context, without allowing any other form of society to dictate their meaning. I wish to connect this, as others have done, to the time these novels were published, during or after World War II, a by... medium of paper... is good and evil, and while being aware of a moral code, is unable to follow it. This is seen as a condition of being human and certainly does not condemn any character who sins, as long as they understand that they have sinned. Those who don't are ridiculous half-human figures who are to be pitied and prayed for until they realize the error of their ways. Bibliography Primary texts Greene, 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, no. 2, Literature and society. (April 1967), pp.93-99Gorra, Michael. “On the End of the Story,” Southwest Review 89.1 (Winter 2004) pp.109-125Hoggart, Richard. 'The Force of Caricature', Essays in Criticism III (1953) pp.447-462