Question

part e
think about the doctor who treated the major and the speaker in the short story \in another country.\ put yourself in the shoes of the doctor, and based on what you read in the story, write what you think his thoughts about the major and the speaker would be. use the following vocabulary in your response and change the form of these words as needed:

• detached
• resign
• withered

Explanation:

From the doctor's perspective in In Another Country, the major is a man whose spirit has withered after losing his wife, leaving him detached from the hopeful therapy and the world around him. He will never resign himself to his disabled hand or the emptiness of his loss, and the speaker, an American outsider, seems equally detached, going through the motions of recovery without the same sharp, personal grief that gnaws at the major.

Answer:

I see the major as a man whose soul has withered—his wife’s death stripped him of any warmth, leaving him cold and detached from the therapy, from me, from everything that doesn’t center on his quiet, unyielding pain. He’ll never resign himself to his useless hand or the hollow space she left, and I can’t blame him. As for the speaker, that young American? He’s detached too, but in a softer way—going through the motions of healing, but never really letting the weight of his injury or this place settle into him like it has the major. He’s just passing through, while the major is stuck in this frozen, grieving moment forever.