The Power and the Glory: "The roof couldn't keep out this rain." (p. 152) "Hope is an instinct only the reasoning human mind can kill. An animal never knows despair." -Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory" (p. 141) In Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, setting is essential in understanding the spiritual conquest of the main character. The story takes place in post-revolution Mexico of the nineteen-thirties, where Catholicism has been banned. The government has …showed first 75 words of 1500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1500 total…life all human beings are plagued with in a universal search to understand Thyself, (and/or, God). This "whiskey priest" becomes One with life, and demonstrates "the power and the glory," when he finally understands: "'Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy… It can be more unhappy than anything but the loss of God. It is the loss of God.'" (p.172)