In its turn, this prompts him to accept Henry Hawthorne’s (M16’s resident in the Caribbean region) proposition to become a British intelligence agent in Havana – in exchange for his willingness to work on behalf of M16, Wormold was placed on a payroll. Being a loving father of his teenage daughter Milly, Wormold finds it increasingly difficult to be able to support Milly’s extravagant lifestyle. The novel’s protagonist James Wormold (who happened to be a British citizen), owns a vacuum cleaner shop in pre-revolutionary Havana, Cuba. Given the apparent straightforwardness of Green novel’s plot, the task of outlining its main twists does not represent much of a challenge.

In my paper, I will aim to substantiate the validity of this suggestion at length. The reason for this is quite apparent – the themes and motifs, explored in this particular novel, appear discursively consistent with the post-industrial realities of the 21 st century’s living, associated with the process of more and more people getting rid of socially upheld illusions, as to what accounts for the essence of their responsibilities in life. Therefore, there is nothing too surprising about the fact that even today Graham Greene’s 1958 novel Our Man in Havana continues to be referred to as such that represents an undermined discursive value. After all, it nowadays becomes increasingly clear for more and more people in the West that, since they live only once and since there is no ‘afterlife’ to look forward to, it is specifically ensuring their personal well-being, which represents their foremost priority in life. This is exactly the reason why, even though that as recently as during the course of the fifties, the idea that one should be willing to sacrifice its life for the sake of a ‘nation’ used to be considered fully legitimate, this is no longer being the case.

This could not be otherwise, because an ongoing process of Globalization effectively exposes people’s tendency to assess the surrounding reality through the lenses of their national affiliation, as such that substantially impedes their chances of a social advancement.

One of the foremost aspects of today’s living is the fact that, as time goes on people in Western countries grow increasingly aware of the sheer out-datedness of the classical concept of nationhood.

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