Graham Greene
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Need help understanding "Our Man In Havana," by Graham Greene?
When marrying, Wormold promised his wife they would raise their children as Catholics. Even when his wife leaves he continues to raise Milly as a Catholic. What is the significance of this?
Plot summary
The novel is set in Cuba during the regime of Fulgencio Batista (which was to be overthrown by Castro). James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, meets Hawthorne, who offers him work for the British secret service. Wormold's wife has left him for another man and he lives with his teenage daughter, Milly. Since Wormold does not make enough money to grant all his daughter's wishes, he decides to take the offer. For lack of any real information to send the secret service, Wormold begins to deceive them by claiming that he has a network of agents. He carries his reports to extremes by sending his clients in London sketches of parts of a vacuum cleaner, telling them that these are sketches of a secret military installation. In London nobody except Hawthorne, who alone knows that Wormold sells vacuum cleaners, doubts this report. Nevertheless Hawthorne does not tell his boss about his doubts for fear of losing his job. In the light of the new developments, London sends Wormold a secretary, Beatrice Severn, and a radio assistant.
On arriving, Beatrice announces to Wormold that she has orders to take over his contacts. Her first request is to contact the pilot Raúl. Under pressure, Wormold develops an elaborate plan that would eventually result in the death of Raul. But to his surprise, Raul, a real pilot, has an accident and dies on his way to the airport. From this point, Wormold's manufactured universe becomes a reality and a rush to separate fact from fiction. Together, Beatrice and Wormold try to save his fictional, now real, agents from getting killed. Meanwhile, London finds out that an unspecified enemy intends to poison Wormold at a trade association meeting. Wormold identifies the enemy, a man called Carter, and avoids getting poisoned.
Wormold has to get the list of names of the other enemy spies and which is in the possession of Captain Segura, who wants to marry Milly. Wormold manages to get Segura drunk in a game of draughts using miniature bottles of Scotch and Bourbon as the game pieces. The captain falls asleep and Wormold takes his gun and a microphoto of the list. Avenging the murder of his close friend Dr Hasselbacher, Wormold shoots Carter at night with Segura's weapon. Wormold sends the photograph, his one real piece of intelligence, to London—but it is overexposed and useless.
Hawthorne and the secret service are then told about the deception. Beatrice, who finally learns the truth from Wormold and loves the scam and his ingenuity, is summoned with him to London. Rather than admit they were taken in by his invented sketch, and afraid that their agency would lose all credibility with others if the affair were exposed, the top officers of the service assign Wormold to headquarters and decorate him with an OBE.