7. What is Peter Guillam's relationship with Smiley and his role in the novel? Explain the significance of the last sentence of Chapter 11.

[Jen]

7. What is Peter Guillam's relationship with Smiley and his role in the novel? Explain the significance of the last sentence of Chapter 11.

[Patrick]

In his role in obtaining documents from within Circus for Smiley's purposes, he felt himself acting as a mole against Circus and against many people within Circus who in the end would not be the mole. Hence, the feeling of self-disgust after the phone call to Mendel.