Back by Henry Green

In the excerpt from Back by Henry Green, Green tells the sorrows of a young man (Charley) returning from war. Scared from a lover's death and the effects of war on his mental and physical being, the mood of this piece is deplorable. It is expressed in the excerpt that Charley has some resentment and hostility due to the lack of his presence during the time of his lover Rose's death. Mentally the character refers …

…Green demonstrates the detrimental effects the war has on the young man Charley. Henry Green uses the roses as motifs to express Charley's scorn. Green expresses how Charley has be permanently scared mentally and emotionally by the war. He has lose his leg, Rose, and piece of mind. Although Rose is dead physically, it is like Charley is dead spiritually and emotionally. Charley has been stripped of all his humanity.<Tab/>