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Henry joined the war because he believed it would automatically make him a hero. His immaturity and ego glazed over the truth about what the war was really like.

Once faced with reality, Henry lost all confidence and constantly worried if he would fight or flight.

His anxiety stemmed from the iron laws of tradition expecting him to be a man and fight even against his natural instincts.

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Throughout the chapter Henry kept putting down the fighting that Wilson described he saw. Henry is still the immature boy bragging about war fallacies.

Henry was projecting himself onto Wilson. He is actually the arrogant child instead of the grown confident man Wilson has become.

Henry is very full of himself. He is more at war with his insecurities than the actual war itself. Henry is not ready to face his shortcomings as he is still just a boy. He tries to convince himself that he is a hero and deserves to be treated as one, regardless of the cowardness he has only portrayed.

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This drastic change in Henry represents the maturation of an arrogant and cocky teenage boy to a strong man who thinks of others instead of only himself.

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"His fingers twined nervously about his rifle. He wished that it was an engine of annihilating power. He felt that he and his companions were being taunted and derided from sincere convictions that they were poor and puny. His knowledge of his inability to take vengeance for it made his rage into a dark and stormy specter, that possessed him and made him dream of abominable cruelties. The tormentors were flies sucking insolently at his blood, and he thought that he would have given his life for a revenge of seeing their faces in pitiful plights"(91-92)

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"He ran like a blind man. Two or three times he fell down." (40)

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"There was the delirium that encounters despair and death, and is heedless and blind to the odds. It is a temporary but sublime absence of selfishness"(101)

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"And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the chosen of gods and doomed to greatness?"(84)

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"The friend had, in a weak hour, spoken with sobs of his own death. He had delivered a melancholy oration previous to his funeral, and had doubtless in the packet of letters, presented various keepsakes to relatives. But he had not died, and thus he had delivered himself into the hands of the youth"(83)

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"His impotency appeared to him, and made his rage into that of a driven beast" (33)

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"He now thought that he wished he was dead. He believed he envied those men whose bodies lay strewn over the grass of the fields and on the fallen leaves of the forest"(65)

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"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage"(52)

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"He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly. He was gleeful when he discovered that he now despised them. With the conviction came a store of assurance. He felt a quiet manhood, nonassertive but of sturdy and strong blood. He knew that he would no more quail before his guides wherever they should point. He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man."(127)

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"He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life - of vague and bloody conflicts that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire" (3)

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"His self-pride was now entirely restored. In the shade of its flourishing growth he stood with braced and self-confident legs, and since nothing could now be discovered he did not shrink from an encounter with the eyes of judges, and allowed no thoughts of his own to keep him from an attitude of manfulness. He had performed his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man."(83)

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"He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity. He saw that he would again be obliged to experiment as he had in early youth. He must accumulate information of himself, and meanwhile he resolved to remain close upon his guard lest those qualities of which he knew nothing should everlastingly disgrace him."(8)

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Reflects on his growth and is humbled by his experience

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Henry sees the flag bearer get hurt so he grabs the flag.

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Proven he is a good soldier and now a man

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Gets hit by other fleeing soldier and claims he was shot

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Trash talks his general

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Belittles Wilson for the note

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Performed his acts in the dark - still thinks he's a man

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Fights

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Anxiety - worried about battle

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arrogant - enlisting
wants to be a romanticized hero