This contrast between nostalgic vision and bone chilling reality can be seen in the first few chapters of the novel with Henry's departure from home. He's a bit of deferred joy of intensity by the cheering gathering. Henry enlists in the outfitted power and says goodbye to his mother with a light of vitality and expectation in his eyes. He imagines a yearning of regretful time to go away.
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One request was that Henry not be a trap by enlisting. She by then destroys his desires by offering sensible, sensible direction in her goodbye talk. Her send-off is not the same as what Henry expects. He stays enthusiastic under the trouble of the talk. Stephen Crane has set out to destroy the fables of the story of real war.
The Red Badge of Courage is first person and the Success and Failures of Chancellorsville is in third person. “He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part-a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire.” Henry expresses the inclination when in fight, one isn't so much a person as a piece of a bigger creature. He was a piece of this common identity, a piece of an unpretentious fight fellowship and a baffling club conceived of the smoke and risk of death. He comprehends that he can do next to no as one man; rather, the whole regiment goes about as one