The physical sacrifices of war lead to inner and outer turmoil within men impacted by the cruel intentions of military battle. Bloodshed leads to victory. However, this bloodshed arrives at the mercy of millions of men who war kills and wounds. These wounds are most often mental, yet physical wounds directly correlate with the inhumanity of war. Physical wounds of war strip man of his confidence in personal image and force him to place prior ideals of body composition above the reality of his condition. State of mind begins to control the wounded man and drives him to depression as he struggles to adapt to physical deformities, weaknesses, insecurities which cloud his mind and drive him away from his ordinary routine. This scarred man faces
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Jake Barnes expresses the innermost feelings held by the wounded man where the “injuries and imperfections” he holds generate “a subject of merriment while remaining quite serious for the [one] possessing them” in that others look unto him in a comical way as opposed to the image of weakness he holds within himself (Hemingway 35). The fear of being held as a laughing stock in social settings gives way to the soldier's detachment from his peers and his normal lifestyle. Men who return from the battlefront riddled with scars become secluded by shame. Shame extends from the idea that those unscathed by or killed in war are more powerful, are less cowardly, and are better respected than those wounded. Men wounded by war think of themselves as nuisances in social settings and “try and play it along [to avoid] mak[ing] trouble for people” that they accompany at all times (Hemingway 39). The humiliation associated with possession of physical deformities created by war leads man to settle with depression as a driving force in his life. The physical price servicemen pay to defend the nation gives way to a personal decline in inner peace and
Jake Barnes expresses the innermost feelings held by the wounded man where the “injuries and imperfections” he holds generate “a subject of merriment while remaining quite serious for the [one] possessing them” in that others look unto him in a comical way as opposed to the image of weakness he holds within himself (Hemingway 35). The fear of being held as a laughing stock in social settings gives way to the soldier's detachment from his peers and his normal lifestyle. Men who return from the battlefront riddled with scars become secluded by shame. Shame extends from the idea that those unscathed by or killed in war are more powerful, are less cowardly, and are better respected than those wounded. Men wounded by war think of themselves as nuisances in social settings and “try and play it along [to avoid] mak[ing] trouble for people” that they accompany at all times (Hemingway 39). The humiliation associated with possession of physical deformities created by war leads man to settle with depression as a driving force in his life. The physical price servicemen pay to defend the nation gives way to a personal decline in inner peace and