"The Destructors" is a very intriguing short story in which the author, Graham Greene, narrates the plight of an interesting young man living in post-World War II London. Trevor, or "T," as the gang prefers to call him is a unique young man with provoking yet disturbing ideas on life and social stature; moreover, he is the story's protagonist. From the beginning, Graham Greene establishes that Trevor is different than the other boys when the …showed first 75 words of 450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 450 total…London, and the idea of money not being such an unjust social problem in society. Trevor, and the gang which he uses for his diabolical plan, successfully tear down Old Misery's house from the inside out, which resolves Trevor's conflict of money unjustly and immorally separating society. The bringing down of the house symbolically represents the destruction of class which was what was wrong before the war, to T., and what is still wrong now.