What Price Glory? (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxwell Anderson, Laurence Stallings
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: World War I
- Setting: The French countryside
- Genres: Realism, Drama, War drama
- Subjects: Values, France or French people, 1940’s, 1930’s, World War I, Military life or service, Soldiers
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
First Sergeant Quirt, the company’s senior noncommissioned officer (NCO). He was Flagg’s senior NCO in China when the captain was enlisted, and they had a disagreement over a woman that continues decades later. Quirt is brutal and dangerously self-confident, and he steals Flagg’s girlfriend after decking a drunken Irishman. In spite of Flagg’s order, he refuses to marry the dishonored woman. At the battlefront, Quirt longs for action, so much so that he is seriously wounded in the foot and must return behind the lines. He escapes from the hospital...
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