Good analysis. There's also another scene in the book in which Prewitt stumbles upon a drunken Warden on the road the night that Prewitt met Slade while playing guitar and working on "Re-enlistment Blues."
Prewitt and Warden banter back and forth good-naturedly, finishing Warden's bottle together and then sit in the middle of the road "to get hit by a truck." But they are picked up by Lt. Culpepper's driver who is obviously disgusted at the "mutual backslapping society" as they both call each other "the best f'ing soljer in the Compny..."
But even in his drunken state, Warden knows that Prewitt is doomed to soon to end up in the stockade for one reason or another, and he feels very badly about it.
Everyone interested in how Jones obtained his sources for
From Here To Eternity should check out this FASCINATING college thesis entitled
FICTION AS HISTORY: James Jones---From Here To Eternity.
I wonder if there are more college papers on the subject of James Jones? I sure would like to read them.
WOW! So far this
Traveller is an INCREDIBLE book. It is the story of Robert E. Lee in the Civil War told through the eyes of his horse, Traveller. Why this novel by Richard Adams ("Watership Down") isn't more popular I don't know. But so far (I just started) it is GREAT! I picked it up for two bits at the flea market and didn't intend to read it until sometime in the future but after just reading the first couple of pages it sort of pulled me in.
Anybody else out there ever hear of Traveller the book?