... of the novel, using Hale as an example to show the very dark, hopeless and unknown side of Brighton shown in the quote ''Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him'' this quote shows the dark side of Brighton as it shows Hale only being in Brighton for a very small amount of time but ... the reader. Greene mentions Pinkie's eyes regularly throughout the novel, an example is when he describes Pinkie to have 'eyes which had never been young stared with grey contempt'. This quote shows the reader Pinkie's cut-short child hood as it says 'which had ...

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