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The Question and Answer section for Brighton Rock is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In this excerpt, the author uses vivid imagery, specifically color, to enhance his description of the depot.
I think we can feel some sympathy for Pinkie because everything in his life was so negative and he just was mentally and emotionally paralyzed. Greene uses a motif of "the stirrup and the ground" throughout the book to demonstrate Pinkie's...
This is only a short-answer space. I can make a general comment. As a gangster, Pinkie assumes that the only standard by which he will be judged is his toughness, understood as his willingness to engage in violence. This presumably would allow...
