Alright. So when talking about the whole relationship of the priest with his daughter and the mother, it kind of reminded me of David, Bathsheba, and their first child. It might be a stretch, and I don't think Greene really had the parallel in mind, but it's something to think about.
The priest had an illegitimate daughter, Brigitta, with Maria. David had an illegitimate child with Bathsheba. Here's where it gets a little interesting. In case you didn't know the story of David, he saw Bathsheba bathing, wanted her, slept with her, and had her would-be husband killed. She then got pregnant and had David's child. As a direct consequence of David's actions, that child died at seven days old. The parallel I guess I'm trying to make is this: just as David was punished with the physical death of his child, the priest was punished with what seems to be a spiritual death of his daughter, for she seems to be completely void of any want of spirituality or belief in God, but seems to be empty. For a king, who is high and mighty and strong, physical ailment or early death would be a disgrace, and so the child of the disobedient king was ill to death. For a priest, who is holy, ungodliness and spiritual emptiness would be the opposite, so the child of disobedient priest was without love and godliness.
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I did not think about that at all. Great parallel! Fortunately for David, he knew he would see his child again and this time in the presence of the Almighty. How unfortuante that the priest will never again see his daughter (presumably).
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