The Quiet American was disliked by American readers as quoted by C.P . Farley in Powell 's Books : A Review by C.P . Farley
American readers were incensed , perhaps not so much because of the biased portrait of obtuse and destructive American innocence and idealism in Alden Pyle , but because in this case it was drawn with such acid pleasure by a middle-class English snob like Thomas Fowler with whom they were all too ready to identify with Greene himself ” - as quoted by C.P . Farley in Powell 's Books : A Review by C.P . Farley.
The Quiet American