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?