“Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years;--and yet too much for twenty years.” (83)
At this point in the novel, the reader has learned that the young soldiers have not done anything substantial in their personal lives since they enlisted in the war. Earlier in the chapter, Kat pulls a photo out of his pocket-book of his wife and remarks how much he misses his family, but the other men are not sympathetic. Instead, they envy him for having a wife and children while they have nothing. This quote shows how excluded they feel from the rest of the world. The only things they can do are all effects from being in the military. It may seem like
At this point in the novel, the reader has learned that the young soldiers have not done anything substantial in their personal lives since they enlisted in the war. Earlier in the chapter, Kat pulls a photo out of his pocket-book of his wife and remarks how much he misses his family, but the other men are not sympathetic. Instead, they envy him for having a wife and children while they have nothing. This quote shows how excluded they feel from the rest of the world. The only things they can do are all effects from being in the military. It may seem like