Who Is The Antagonist In The Destructors

The Destructors, by Graham Greene, is a combination of mischief, leadership, challenges, hopelessness, and new beginnings. This novel is about a gang of boys that call themselves the Wormsley Common gang that destroy a house. Everyday they meet in a parking lot located by near the town that was bombed during WW2, everything in this part of town is completely destroyed except for this one house, owned by a man named Mr.Thomas. A while after a new kid, Trevor, or “T”, moves into town, he comes up with this crazy idea to tear down this nice house brick by brick simply because he did not like the fact that this is the only house that was left after the bombings and he felt that it needed to be torn down just like the other houses in the neighborhood. The gang, under T’s orders, took advantage of the absence of Mr.Thomas and tore down the house in a day, leaving Mr.Thomas feeling not only indignant but hopeless.

Except for when he describes Mr.Thomas. Greene uses direct presentation to help the reader get a better understanding of him, “Old Misery—whose real name was Thomas—had once been a builder and decorator,” (Greene 2). Greene portrays the Wormsley Common Gang as the protagonists because they work together to achieve a certain goal. They undergo different changes in the gang, such as varying leaders, and several challenges like how they are going to achieve their goal. The antagonists would be Mr.Thomas and his house, because neither of them undergo any personal changes and they both hold a challenge to the