In the short story, The Destructors, Trevor is alienated from the community in which he grew up in when his family loses their social status, “his father, a former architect and present clerk, had “come down in the world” and that his mother considered herself better than the neighbors” (Greene, p.1). This move to Wormsley Commons and the related unexplained financial loss contributes to T.’s lost innocence and alienation from a life he once knew as well as alienation among the ‘gang’ he now associates with.
T. has the opportunity, the experience of being able to visit Old Misery’s home, but as all the boys don’t have an experience with beauty in the world and instead are experienced with war, "It was the word “beautiful” that worried him—that
T. has the opportunity, the experience of being able to visit Old Misery’s home, but as all the boys don’t have an experience with beauty in the world and instead are experienced with war, "It was the word “beautiful” that worried him—that