1. Write a sentence that summarizes the story’s overall message, and provide three direct quotes from the story that best illustrate this message.
The overall message throughtout the story was that war is a good thing. Soildes fight for their country and for their freedom, and they should be glorified bcause of this.
“If he could do something worthy to have won her--be a hero, her hero--it would be even better than if he had done it before asking her; it would be grander.”
“They selected me for captain, and I'm going to the war, the big war, the glorious war, the holy war ordained by the pocket.”
“No, girls don’t; women don’t, when they give their men up for their country. They think they’ll come marching back somehow, just as gay as they went”
2. What tactics does Editha use to make George believe as she does about the war?
She does many things to make him think the same way about war she does. A few things that she does is say that he must believe the same way she does or else she will not marry him. Also she would try to convice him that being a soilder would make him look like a hero, and he would be loved for this. And then she plays with his emotions and says that she agrees with his beielf, which make him want to follow what his wife says and become a soilder.
3. Is there ever a time in which Editha truly understands what she has done? Does she ever experience an epiphany?
There is only one moment when she disocovers what she had done. She has lost the love of her life, and she would never be able to get him back. Though, even after realizing this, she still beeilves that she made the right choise sending him to war. After being yelled at by her late husband’s mother, she finds herself intears, but soon, at the end of the story, with a talk with a women in the park, she is back to the idealistic views about war.
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