"I have been very proud, you know. Proud of your friendship. Boasting about it to everyone I've met"
MacDonald presents Sassoon and Owen's friendship as family like. Owen openly shows how much he values his new friendship with Sassoon; his former hero. He confesses to how much he relies on it, "I have been proud, you know. Proud of your friendship. Boasting about it to everyone I've met". The uses of the adjective 'proud' shows the emotion he feels towards Sassoon and the joy he experiences from forming a bond his former idol. Alternatively, their friendship could be interpreted as providing hope. They are both experienced soldiers that know how brutal war really is. They both need something to cling on to after what they have witnessed and represent a constant figure like a family member. The audience is aware that friendship is important coping mechanism to survive the war because otherwise they remain lonely men that have little chance of returning to life after war.
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