I think many post war novelists considered how a peacetime bad boy became a war hero and then how war heroes found it hard to settle afterwards. WEJ does (Noble Lord and Black Mask amongst others) and Neville Shute has a few books looking at the aftermath of the war and how men make, or fail to make, a new normality. It might be more noticeable in Agatha Christie because she writes crime books and all of her characters are a little exaggerated for plot purposes and perhaps less nuanced.
I think Pat should raise dogs and horses by herself as I think she'd be attracted to bad girls as well as bad boys.
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Date: 2023-02-08 04:59 pm (UTC)I think many post war novelists considered how a peacetime bad boy became a war hero and then how war heroes found it hard to settle afterwards. WEJ does (Noble Lord and Black Mask amongst others) and Neville Shute has a few books looking at the aftermath of the war and how men make, or fail to make, a new normality. It might be more noticeable in Agatha Christie because she writes crime books and all of her characters are a little exaggerated for plot purposes and perhaps less nuanced.
I think Pat should raise dogs and horses by herself as I think she'd be attracted to bad girls as well as bad boys.