Silko Vietnam War Character Analysis

“Rocky made him look at the corpse and said ‘Tayo, this a Jap! This is a Jap uniform!’ and then he rolled the body over with his boot and said, ‘ look , Tayo, look at the face,’ and that was when Tayo started screaming because it wasn’t a Jap, it was Josiah, eyes shrinking back into the skull and all their shrinking black light glazed over by death” (Silko 7).
True men do not suffer from the ghosts of war. Manliness condones this behavior in soldiers after World War II. In Silko’s Ceremony¸ she analyzes standard of manliness set for the soldiers suffering from PTSD compared to the standards set at the time. Just as in the past, the men who suffer from war are not seen as manly. One example, stated above, is when Tayo observes the execution