"A person doesn't change because you fin out more", but they do. For a person like Harry Lime who has not even appeared in the picture yet, we make judgements about him according to what we know, Holly has known Harry as his best firend ofr 20 years but that has crashed down around him in his realisation that Lime is indeed as Calloway says "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city". It is Lime's betrayal of Holly, hist twisted and cynical ideas of morality and Holly's underlying simplistic, yet honest belief n right and wrong which lead to him agreeing to Calloway's plan.

Holly has a clear picture of what Harry is to him. It is this vivid pciture that sets him on a wuest to "hunt down the sheriff who [is] victimising his best friend". Calloway must be in the wrng because Holly's Harry isn't like that. What Holly comes to realise is that he doesn't know Harry at all. How indeed, could such an honest and trusting man like Martins, be best friends with such a devil? When Holly

"Again the devil took [Jesus] to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour; and he said to him "all these I will give you, if you all down and worship me"" Matthew:4:8. Harry Lime's world is viewed from upon high, just like Satan's. People are "dots" and thus he can be detached from the flesh and blood reality of his victims. We know Harry's view of the world to be wrong and cruel. He is cynical and hopeless about mankind and so turns to crime. Holly's contrasting faith in people (including the faith he had in his best friend's innocence) is what also converts him to being Calloway's "duck". He cannot let someone like Harry continue on his bitter "5-year plan" where children, not dots are the price.

This is not to say that Holly has no misgivings about taking part. Harry is after all his best friend, "[he][knows] he deserves to hang...but twenty years is a long time, don't ask me to tie the rope." Holly tells Calloway he wants out ater Anna fights with him. Betrayal is something Anna would never do, but that is her principle, not Hol

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