Study Questions:
What is the setting of The Power
and the Glory?
What is the importance of the priest's
journey.
How does Greene use dialogue?
Why is the Mestizo a "Judas" figure?
How do "doubles" operate in the
text? Think about the two priests, the Gringo, and even the Whisky
Priest and the Lieutenant.
What is the importance of the tug
of war between the dog and the Priest?
How does the cell become a kind
of confessional for the Priest?
How does Greene resolve the plot--and
why is the end one of redemption?
How does abandonment operate as
a motif?
How is the novel a modernist one?