Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In
this excerpt, Henry Fleming is realizing that he will face
battle for the first time.
He wishes, without reserve, that he was home again
making the endless rounds from the house to the barn,
from the barn to the fields, from the fields to the barn,
from the barn to the house. He remembered he had so
often cursed the brindle cow and her mates, and had
sometimes flung milking stools. But, from his present
point of view, there was a halo of happiness about each
of their heads, and he would have sacrificed all the brass
buttons on the continent to have been enabled to return
to them. He told himself that he was not formed for a
soldier. And he mused seriously upon the radical
differences between himself and those men who were
dodging implike around the fires.
Which statement best expresses Henry's perspective in
this excerpt?
O War might not be a glorious endeavor after all.
O War is more fulfilling than working on the farm.
O He feels prepared to be successful in battle.
O He is a better soldier than those around him.