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 of the passage is that living in reality is better because living in an ideal world is unrealistic and can be precarious and unexpecting.
- “To take the part that her whole soul willed him to take, for the completion of her ideal of him”
- ” It isn’t this war alone; though this seems peculiarly wanton and needless; but it’s every war –so stupid; it makes me sick.”
- ““He told me he had asked you to come if he got killed. You didn’t expect that, I suppose, when you sent him.”
2. What tactics does Editha use to make George believe as she does about the war?
Editha uses a truth tactic and makes George believe that everything she is saying is true. George ultimately has disbeliefs and he begins to feel doubt. When Edith speaks about the “holy war”, this is where his doubt began. She gives George the guilt trip and makes him believe that going to war is well beyond honorable. He must obey her if he wants their relationship to last.
3. Is there ever a time in which Editha truly understands what she has done? Does she ever experience an epiphany?
I believe there is an understanding that Edith experiences when she realizes what she has done. She feels guilty for pressuring George to go to far and realizes he would not be dead if she did not basically send him to war herself. In the beginning she doesn’t really feel any remorse because she thinks his death is honorable, but then she begins to hurt and feel distraught over her loss. She experiences an epiphany that brings her back to her ideal world. George’s mother had caused her to revert back to her idealistic life but telling Edith it was basically her fault George died.
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