A review by amywong
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

slow-paced

2.0

Not sure this aged well or if this is just for a specific audience. This book, though a solid drama story, has a religious agenda. It paints everyone who isn't religious constantly going through little karmic retributions. The nonreligious characters are consistently shoved good happenings that are supposedly due to supernatural interventions through faith. Bendrix never got Sarah and is friends with Henry at the end and implied to be going into Catholicism. Sarah is dead and to the end struggled with her faith as she wanted to be with Bendrix but felt guilt for her religion and is found to have been baptized and officially Catholic. But she didn't get her funeral proceedings done the Catholic way due to bendrix. Again, like a reminder that her sins caused everything. The two main nonreligious characters are just punished to the end. Even the atheist who Sarah met up with is turned religious because his face scar is suddenly gone. I'm not the audience for this. If the religious notes were taken out, maybe this would be a good drama.