Henry Graham Greene was born in October 2, 1904, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in England.

The fourth child out of six children of Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene. Bullied and profoundly depressed he made several suicide attempts.

In 1920, aged 16, in what was a radical step for the time, he was sent for psychoanalysis for six months in London. Graduated in 1922, Greene went on to Oxford University's Balliol College. (Graduated from Oxford in 1925 with a second-class pass in history)

In 1926 he began his professional writing career as an unpaid apprentice. (Nottingham Journal and The Times)
He held his position as an assistant editor until the publication of his first novel, The Man Within (1929).

In 1990 Greene was stricken with an unspecified blood disease and died on April 3rd, 1991. Works:

The Man Within (1929) The Name of Action (1930) A Gun for Sale (1936) Brighton Rock (1938) The Confidential Agent (1939) The Ministry of Fear (1943) The Heart of the Matter (1948) - James Tait Black Memorial Prize The Comedians (1966) May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967) (short stories) Travels with My Aunt (1969) A Sort of Life (1971) (autobiography) The Human Factor (1978) Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980)

The story tells about Craven with uncertain thoughts in his mind. He always finds himself thinking about corpse, body and mind being separated from each other, the condition of underworld where he believes that the body can rise again. He knew he should not think that way but could not help himself. He is always afraid of madness that in the end it showed within him.

We were introduced to the main character, Craven who had a recurrent nightmare in which all the dead people walked in and out of each other's grave.

Then, he went to the cinema and met with a nameless man who boasted that he was the murderer who was recently in the news. The stranger's hands are "damp and sticky" and leave a smear of blood on Cravens hands. So Craven does the most sensible thing he can think of and informs the police. However, they tell him that the murderer has already been apprehended. It is the body of the victim that has not yet been found.
To his horror he realised that the stranger is not the murderer but the victim. At this point Craven goes berserk, screaming the he won't go mad. But we know that he already has.

Craven = lacking courage. Alone or lonely

he felt sure that his breath was foul but who could he ask? [page 9 (176) , line 7]

Mentally unstable.

He began to scream, I wont go mad. I wont go mad. Im sane. I wont go mad. Presently a little crowd began to collect and soon a policeman came. [page 11 (180) , last three lines]

His view for love - he finds love is a materialistic thing.

...but you needed money for love. All that a poor man could get was lust. Love needed a good suit, a car, a flat somewhere, or a good hotel

Craven is obsessed about the human body's impurity, ending up insanity.

Every grave was connected to another under the ground [page 8]

Psychoanalytic theory is a study of human desires whether human realize it or not. Psychoanalytic believes that the brain is consist of two parts
The conscious mind (preconscious) The unconscious mind

We assumed that Psychoanalytic theory is embedded in this text.

It can be seen from the main character condition of having the same dream three times.
Craven sees himself to be "alone in the huge dark cavenous

burying ground of all world." [Page 8]

The way Craven always having the same dream that made him "woken trembling" as if his unconsciousness tried to give message to his conscious-self.

The way Craven actually views love has a link with Psychoanalytic theory.

Craven sees love as something realistic.

He described that love needs money, luxuries such as "good suit,

a car, flat or a good hotel.

In the perspective of Psychoanalytic theory, human is seen to be natural as human has full of sexual desires.
Craven has the desires to be fulfilled but he can't and he hated

his body for that.

We can also assume that Craven has also going through certain stages of Defence mechanism, whereby he insisted that he is not a madman.

However, he keep seeing things that are no ordinary people can think of he met an old man in the cinema. The reader cannot measure the validity of the statement. It could be Craven's delusion. Defense Mechanism - A tactic developed by the ego to protect against anxiety. It is thought to safeguard the mind against feelings and thoughts that are too difficult for the conscious mind to cope with.