ABSTRACT
Deciphering never disappears altogether from Greene's prose, but he prefers the word discovering in the latter part of his career. 1 The word appears very often, usually with some form of notable, and signals a strategy radically altered from deciphering in its assumptions about plots and their readers. 2 Even with its altered strategy, notable discovering still pursues the most important agenda of deciphering: a control over narrative and its interpretation. But Greene is interested in a different kind of control, an aggressive one that regulates the society in which his readers live.
