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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident"
    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident"
    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident"
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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident"

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    A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535817196
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      A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident" - Gale

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      A Shocking Accident

      Graham Greene

      1957

      Introduction

      The British author Graham Greene's short story A Shocking Accident is a lighthearted meditation on how a youth named Jerome responds when his father suffers a tragicomic death. The story was published originally in the humor/satire magazine Punch on November 6, 1957, and subsequently in Greene's 1967 collection May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life.

      Greene enjoyed a brilliant career that involved extensive travels to oft-tumultuous foreign lands, a prolonged literary investigation into the roles of religion in people's lives, and the near-constant filming of adaptations of his novels. While he was known for his thrilling entertainments as well as high literature, his forays into forthright humor writing were relatively few. However, his well-cued wit is on display in A Shocking Accident, which will likely leave the reader—no matter how sensitive, sympathetic, or politically correct one imagines oneself to be—laughing time and again at the various versions of the tricky tale of death inflicted by unexpected and undignified forces. The story can additionally be found in Greene's Collected Short Stories (1986).

      Author Biography

      Greene was born on October 2, 1904, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, the fourth of six children. His father, a history and classics scholar who became headmaster of the village school, was not especially close to his son, while his mother was morally pure and aloof. When Greene first learned to read, he did so in secret, enjoying stories by Rudyard Kipling and Beatrix Potter in a secluded attic. He later turned to adventurous tales by H. Rider Haggard and recountings of great historical events like China's turn-of-the-century Boxer Rebellion. In school, Greene felt alienated because of his father's conspicuous authority and was repulsed by the lack of privacy there, which led him to skip school to escape into books. Turning self-destructive, he experimented with swallowing toxic substances, so in 1920, his father enrolled him in psychoanalysis, then a relatively novel practice, in London. Greene thoroughly

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