who is the american quiet?
Thomas Fowler. The protagonist and narrator of The Quiet American, Thomas Fowler is a cynical, middle-aged English journalist who has been reporting on the military conflict in Vietnam for more than two years. Alden Pyle. Alden Pyle is young, highly idealistic, and romanticâthe titular quiet American. A professorâs son, Pyle has led a gentle, intellectual life in Boston and at Harvard University, where he first encounters the writings of hisâ¦ (read full character analysis)