eved that by getting married one is putting him/herself in a position of eventual loss. “He can not marry. He cannot marry,” he said angrily. “If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose” (271)After making a phone-call, from which he learned about death of his wife, he came to the American and apologized for being rude. At this point the American realized what the major was thinking when he said that he is against marriage. Furthermore the doctor provided an American with more information about major and his wife, about her illness and their marriage. Afterwards major didn’t come to the hospital for a few days, however when he returned he wasn’t the same person.Although the main characters played an important role to the story, I think we shouldn’t neglect the secondary ones who maybe didn’t change the things drastically, but offered a lot in building the story and understanding the main points of it.So one of the secondary characters is the doctor of the hospital who was in everyday contact with the patients, and was their hope, the man who supported them psychologically by giving them courage about the rout of their health. We see from the text that the doctor knew about the major’s wife and her illness, and we guess that he knew a lot of his patient’s lives and with an everyday interaction became a kind of their friend. Besides the doctor there are also the boys, who were similar in age and medals, to the narrator, an American. “They were all three from Milan, and one of them was to be a lawyer, and one was to be a painter, and one had intended to be a soldier” (268). They were the ones with whom an American was sometimes going to the Caf Cova after the treatment in the hospital. There they were more similar then in the hospi...
