The Power and the Glory 2

The Power and the Glory- An Un-Holy Priest There is much uncertainty as to why Graham Green chose to have the priest in his novel, The Power and the Glory, live such an appalling life. Normally, one thinks of a priest as the holiest being among all people on earth. This common belief, however, is challenged in this novel when the priest takes part in numerous activities that are not priest-like: committing adultery, alcoholism. In …

…suffering see that even a priest has flaws, they stop searching for an explanation. All of the people who came in counter with the priest throughout the book, were able to take a little piece of something from his experiences: advice, kindness, or just someone to relate to. This was Greene’s ultimate goal in writing The Power and the Glory, to show that we all have the same problems, and we are all human.