![]() For those intent on appreciating the story specifically as a Greene novel, many of the semantic elements from his earlier work reappeared in this 1958 novel: a seedy atmosphere (this time Batista’s Cuba), a protagonist with a checkered past and a seemingly dull future (here Jim Wormold, a British expatriate vacuum cleaner salesman), Catholicism (in the form of Wormold’s daughter Milly, raised a Catholic in accordance with his ex-wife’s wishes), and so forth. The story deployed elements and processes associated with several genres, including the espionage thriller, the comedy of manners, and the romantic comedy. ![]() ![]() Our Man in Havana, like all fiction, could be read by audiences in different circumstances in different ways, depending on the sort of expectations they brought to the text. ![]()
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