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- The painter tells Editha that she cannot understand people who discount the positive consequences of war. Her support buoys Editha, who rises from her "shame and self-pity" to embrace the ideal of war once again.
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In her letter, Editha tells George that a husband must share her convictions about war to be worthy of her. She claims that she will never marry anyone else; she will entrust...
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When Editha Balcom’s fiancé George Gearson tells her there is to be a war, Editha tells him it is “glorious” and is “puzzled” (1) by his lack of enthusiasm.
George tells Editha that his mother raised him not to like war. When his mother confronts her, Editha feels for the first time that war might be wrong and that she might have done...
Aug 21, 2023 · Tone-Howell bitterly uses the death of the innocent George to point up his disgust for war. The dialogue between Editha and the other characters illustrates this denouncement of war.
In encouraging George to enlist in the war, she tells him “[t]here is nothing now but our country” (2) and that “God meant it to be war” (3); in her letter to him, in which she warns she cannot marry him until he makes the decision to enlist, she writes, “There is no honor above America with me” (4).
George's father had settled there after the Civil War, as so many other old soldiers had done; but they were Eastern people, and Editha fancied touches of the East in the June rose overhanging the front door, and the garden with early summer flowers stretching from the gate of the paling fence.
The letter that Editha writes to Gearson effectively makes the war a substitute for the sexual consummation of their love and functions as the means by which Editha can maintain her independence and domination.
