![]() Adaptational Job Change: In the novel, Ida has no stated profession and is implied to be a sex worker. ![]() It has also been adapted twice into film - once in 1947, and once in 2010, which gave it a shift in period to the mods-and-rockers era. The novel deals with numerous themes, including the nature of morality, and comes from a strongly Roman Catholic perspective - largely owing to it being the writer's religion. He is increasingly driven toward desperate means, further murders and eventually attempting to kill his newlywed wife and himself. After murdering a newspaper reporter, Fred Hale, Pinkie thinks he has successfully got away with it - until a woman who had been with Hale on the day, Ida Arnold, decides to pursue him for the crime he has committed. ![]() One of Graham Greene's better-known novels, Brighton Rock (1938) is set in 1930s Brighton, and describes the fall of Pinkie Brown, a 17-year-old boy who takes charge of a mob. ![]()
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