Parts three and four of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, maintained the story’s bizarre nature while focusing mainly on the whiskey priest. Concentrating more on the whiskey priest allowed the reader to determine whether the whiskey priest was a saint, sinner, or both.

In the beginning of part three, the whiskey priest was staying at home with the Lehr’s. He left soon, for he felt he had been living in luxury. Soon after, the priest goes to a village, where he agrees to hear confessions and to baptize. The people that are receiving confessions and baptisms are poor, so the priest lowers the price. The reader saw this as an act of compassion and consideration from the whiskey priest. The priest was then about to depart to Las Casas, but was confronted by a man whom had a request for a priest t

In the priest’s final hours he repented his sins and asked God for forgiveness. He wanted to see his wife again, but she felt she was being trapped and did not proceed. In the morning of his shooting, the priest began to mourn his death. “He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted—to be a saint.” (Part III, Chapter 4)

When the priest was killed, there was not much made of it in the book. Though there wasn’t any specific thoughts are phrases, the implications of his death had an effect on everyone he knew.

o head south to bless an American. The reader was suspicious at this point and was surprised the whiskey priest had the courage to do so. The act of the priest going south was confusing, because is he going down to get caught or actually help someone? After realizing why the priest decided to go south, the reader viewed th

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