Analysis Of The Red Convertible By Louise Erdrich

Whether it is the real world or the world of literature, war never changes. Throughout time the concept remains the same, the only difference is the soldiers who are altered by it. The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich contains several examples of such change in the character Henry and how he goes from an average kid to a broken man. The last picture that was taken of him particularly captures this concept. The picture of Henry on the day before his death symbolizes how war can transform people for the worse after suffering from great trauma. At the point of the story where Henry returned from the war the narrator, Lyman, pointed out how different he was compared to when he left, “He’d always had a joke, then, too, and now you couldn’t get