Journal for William Dean Howells

The reading for today is Editha by William Dean Howells. To be clear I think that the female protagonist was very naive and impressionable. I see the usage of propaganda during the time and how the character falls for it, but I do not agree how she feels her husband must fight in the war to show his love for her. I feel more for the male character as his beliefs are being compromised and he feels as though he is being forced to choose between his beliefs of non aggression and his love for Editha. I think that this is a thoughtful story. The story is a moral questioning about the good of war it would seem and the costs of it and also a stab at the unenlightened thoughts of many people about war during the time.