Eros, Dios, And The End Of The Affair
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Eros, Dios, and the End of the Affair
By
Luke Ewing
Research Writing
CPO 576
03.07.2006
"Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each otherÂ…"
"Doesn't it?"
"Â…people go on loving God all their lives, don't they, without seeing Him?"
"That's not our kind of love."
"I sometimes don't believe there's any other kind." (Greene 5)
Graham Greene uses his novel The End of the Affair to show that erotic love is truly the strongest human expression of the innate desire for God. Greene uses the fictionalized tale of his own real life affair with the beautiful Catherine Walston to examine the relationship of hate to love, of physical to spiritual, of holy to tainted, and of erotic love to divine love.
A moderately popular novelist, Greene's central protagonist, Bendrix, tells the woeful tale of his ultimately doomed love affair with Sarah Miles, the beautiful wife of civil servant Henry Miles. In a series of flash backs, Greene reveals the unlikely birth, anemic but passionate life, and abrupt death of this fling. It's final demise arrives when Sarah finds her lover trapped beneath a door after a bomb lands nearby, and thinking Bendrix dead, she makes a pact with God that if God will spare Bendrix's life, she would walk away from him forever. Remarkably Bendrix is unharmed and their affair is abruptly over.
Bendrix then embarks on a journey of investigation, searching his lover out, even hiring a private detective to discover Sarah's secrets, to discover who it was that lured her away from him. Bendrix is certain that Sarah has a new lover, and that she is still playing around on her husband Henry. The thought of her in another's arms drives Bendrix mad. In his pursuit, Bendrix unearths the trail of a wild lover wooing...
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