Edward Albee’s Analytical Writing

In the viewpoint of the author Ambrose Bierce through his story Killed at Resaca, Bierce explains that war can change the way a man’s character is viewed. Bierce writes how Brayle was “vain of his courage” meaning he was unaware that he would ride straight at the enemy without cover or thought. In regular life, this quality might not serve you well, but on a battlefield this can be heroic. The “vicissitudes and mutations” explain how awful the battlefield was. The battlefield was covered in bodies and limbs with people shooting at each other. Through all this Brayle was still courageous and able to react heroically in the face of chaos. This paragraph shows how in the face of war, war can change a man.