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 message is that trying to live in an optimal world instead of reality is a really bad thing, especially for Editha.
“It isn’t this war alone; though this seems peculiarly wanton and needless; but it’s every war –so stupid; it makes me sick. Why shouldn’t this thing have been settled reasonably?”
“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 tries to reason with George by telling him he has to, just like every other man out there. She says that it needs to happen because that's what life is about, fighting in a war and coming home with a victory. She also threatened that if he didn't go, she wouldn't get married to him. That was the reason he actually went.
3. Is there ever a time in which Editha truly understands what she has done? Does she ever experience an epiphany?
Editha has a slight understanding of what she was done after she finds out that George has died. She mourns his loss and visits George’s mother like he asked. George's mom yells at Editha and blames her for his death, which she has the right to do. Editha doesn’t truly understand her actions though. She has an epiphany at the end that brings her back into her ideal world when the lady Editha was telling her story to, agreed that Mrs. Gearson was vulgar for saying those things. Editha rose out of self-pity and began to live in the ideal again.
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