Chapter 15- Speaking of Courage

I find the chapter extremely sad. It is about a man trying to find a way to come back home. He's trying to come back mentally. As he drives around and around he can't figure out a way to just step back into society agian. After having been gone for so long, he is witnessing what he is missed. The soldier has so many stories to tell and he just wants to blurt him out to anybody he sees. It's sad how he plays out the conversation in the head and nobody cares or wants to listen to him. I wonder if this is how every soldier felt coming home. Relief and sadness. How do you just step back into your old town years later? They are all changed men with changed feelings. As he goes around the town, he sees people doing average things. I think he is feeling envy at this point. He wants to fit in and become part of what he used to be.

The mood of this chapter is what is so powerful.
The mood is lonliness. The man doesn't believe he fits in and doesn't remember how to fit in.