Isolation In Billy Prior

Isolation was a feeling that was often rare for rank officers to experience and if they did the emotion was never shown. Billy Prior experienced and felt isolation and the feeling of loneliness. Although Prior never directly say I’m lonely, Barker creates the opportunity to identify his feelings and link it with his actions, an example of this is when Prior and Sarah are out and he feels out of place. When he returns Rivers tells him that someone saw him without his hospital badge. His response was, “I wasn’t wearing the badge because I was looking for a girl… as you may or may not know- is not made easier by going around with a badge stuck on your chest saying I AM A LOONY.” The hospital is a badge is a metaphor for people to isolate him,