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. . . Crane seems plainly to be showing that he has not achieved a lasting wisdom or self-knowledge.”
13 Put another way, the tall soldier (Jim Conklin) is a responsible adult when the novel opens; the loud soldier (Wilson) becomes an adult after his first day in battle; but “the youth” (Fleming) does not change at all. He remains a dupe to his illusions to the final page.
In fact, he has been conditioned to harbor his illusions from an early age. His ideas about war have been gleaned from reading classical Greek authors, Homer’s Iliad in particular. “He had read of marches, sieges, conflicts, and he had longed to see it all,” but Fleming now despairs that “Greeklike struggles would be no more.” Modern warfare would be neither as noble nor as savage as it was for the Greeks. Henry fears he will run in battle, moreover, and he conceives of war (as would a good Darwinian) as a cru
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