"The invisible Japanese Gentlemen"

Greene's short story presents eleven characters, but there are three whom are the most important the Lady who is a writer, her fiancé and the narrator. First of all, the author shows a narrator who notices everything around him. He pays attention to what this couple says and what kind of attitude they have. Second, the Lady is a superficial and selfish woman who is only interested in her works, and how much her publisher is going to pay for her novels. She doesn't care what is going on around her and also what her fiancé can feel and think about what she is saying. Fiancé is a man who feels scare if he says something that her girlfriend could take as an attack against her.

However, this is a short story which has a lot of details. In effect, we as readers can know that there are eight Japanese gentlemen whom are eating a expensive fish in a restaurant, and also that there is a couple who is talking about the Lady's novel which is going to be sell. All these things we know thank to narrator because he observes and tells us what this couple is talking and they gestures. This is great because narrator gives us the chance to imagine the Lady and her fiancé's psychological and psichologycal personalities.

According to the title, the name of it is because at the final of this story the Lady never noticed that there were Japanese gentlemen in the restaurant. She was so worried about the name of her novel and her publisher that she did not pay attention if there were somebody else around her. In fact, only her fianacé saw and made her a comment about all these Japanese gentlemen when they were picking up their coats.