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"EDITHA"This story is about a woman named Editha. Editha was engaged to George and told him it was his duty to his country to scar up and go lot in the war. Editha wanted a hero for a husband and she secretly wanted him to go to war so that she would have that hero. After an argument with him she at long last convinces him to go. George dies in the war and his mother blames Editha for his death. Editha is in denial and accepts no responsibility for the death of George or the reasons that he chose to go to war in the first place.&9Editha was engaged to a man named George Gearson. A war had begun and Editha became excited about the concept of having a hero for a husband. Editha, right away started encouraging George to sign up for the war, she believed it was his patriotic duty as an American. George did not believe in war and was raised to be passive. Georges father had lost his arm in the Civil war and his mother did not want him to suffer the same thing. His father and m other together decided to discourage George from going to any war. &9George and Editha got in a heated argument about the war and their different opinions and he left to go out. George told her he would come back for dinner. At this range Editha considered their relationship over. She did not see how she could continue to love a man who did not love his country as much as she did. When George left, that was it for Editha. She decided that if he could not believe the way she did then he did not deserve her. She sat down and wrote him a letter and gathered all the things he had always given her and put them all in a box. In the letter, she told him that she could not be with a man who was not loyal to his country first of all. She could not be with a man who did not believe the way she did and therefore she was breaking up with him. After thinking it over, Editha decided that she was jumping the gun and that since George state he would think about what she had said, that she would gi ve him a chance to think her way, which she considered the only way.