A Comedian Yes, But Why Essay, Research Paper

I Should Never Have Gone To This Funeral, I Should Never Have Come To This Country, I Was A Stranger” (182). A Stranger In His Own Land, So Feels Mr. Brown, The Narrator Of Graham Greene S The Comedians. Mr. Brown Was Able To Leave Haiti For The United States, But He Could Not Escape Haiti. Mr. Brown Is, As The Title Suggests, One Of The Comedians Of The Novel. A Comedian Can Be Defined In Many Ways. In The Novel, Mr. Brown Is A Comedian In The Sense That He Is Acting Out This False Life That He Does Not Really Live. He Is A Comedian, Not Because Of His Witty Comments, But Because His False Life Seems Rather Amusing To Him. He Expects Everything Will Be The Same In Haiti, As It Was Before He Left. He Does Not See That His Goal In Leaving Was To Sell The His Hotel, The Trianon. It Is The Only Material Object That Keeps Him Attached To Haiti.

Mr. Brown cannot admit to himself that he came back to Haiti, for any reason other than materialism. As a comedian, he fails to realize that he his emotions have also drawn him back to Haiti. His love for Martha, his friendship with Joseph, and his desire to arise from his mother s shadow were all emotional objects that lead him back to Haiti. Emotional objects that Mr. Brown fails to recognize. A comedian lives a false life. He is trained to act as if he were someone else. Mr. Brown does just this. He denies his true emotions and must laugh at the falseness in his life. Mr. Brown knows he is a comedian, but he does not that his denial is the reason why.