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Lavender In Ernest Hemingway's The Things They Carried

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I am not sure that Lavender 's death caused him to realize that Martha didn 't long him and never would. He seemed to be aware of this as we were shown how she refused his advance and how he understood that signing a letter "love" didn 't necessarily mean that she was in love with him. You are absolutely right though that Lavender 's death forced him to realize that Martha belonged to a different world. With this realization, he also discovered that he has to focus on the war and his men, and stop allowing himself to be distracted by someone who had no business in that

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