A Vietnamese businessman and manufacturer who helps Alden Pyle build plastic explosives, but also plays an important part in ordering Pyle’s death. Heng is seemingly amoral, and realistic about his position in Vietnam—he explains to Fowler that he sells his services to the highest bidder. Unlike Fowler, Heng believes that it’s impossible not to be engagé in Vietnam.
Mr. Heng Quotes in The Quiet American
The The Quiet American quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Heng or refer to Mr. Heng. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 2
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Mr. Heng turned away. “I only want you to remember what you have seen,” he said, walking back in the shadows of the junk-pile. “Perhaps one day you will have a reason for writing about it. But you must not say you saw the drum here.” “Nor the mould?” I asked. “Particularly not the mould.”
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Mr. Heng Quotes in The Quiet American
The The Quiet American quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Heng or refer to Mr. Heng. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 2
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Mr. Heng turned away. “I only want you to remember what you have seen,” he said, walking back in the shadows of the junk-pile. “Perhaps one day you will have a reason for writing about it. But you must not say you saw the drum here.” “Nor the mould?” I asked. “Particularly not the mould.”
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