Essay Destructors by Graham Green

and the following conversation follows: “? you hate him a lot? ? Blackie asked. ?Of course I don’t hate him! T. said. ?There? be no fun if I hated him? …? All this hate and love? , he said, ? it? s soft, it? s hooey. There? s only things, Blackie? … (Page 166). Thirdly, there is Mr. Thomas, who the boys call “Old Misery”. He used to be a builder and a decorator. Now, he lives alone in a partially deteriorated house, though it is the only house which remains from the times of the war. Old Misery represents the debris of a better past before the war. The boys call him that way because they consider he is too mean to spend money trying to fix his house. Yet, Mr.

Thomas once gives them some chocolate, an attitude the gang finds suspicious as they think it is a bribe. To sum up, these three characters portray the feelings of self-destruction as well as destruction of others. T. and Blackie, having lost their innocence, always want either to destroy something or to cause some little misfortunes to others. On the other hand, Mr. Thomas shows a feeling of self-destruction and deterioration because he does nothing to repair the house. In every case, feelings which are unfortunately caused by the war.