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The Major
The doctor oversees the officers’ treatment in the machines at the hospital. The doctor is always optimistic about the machines’ ability to heal the soldiers’ physical wounds. He brings in photographs of the machines’ alleged previous successes, although the narrator notes he always thought he and his comrades were meant to be the first test subjects. Later, it is the doctor who tells the narrator the details about the death of the major’s wife. After her death, the doctor frames the photographs next to the major’s machine, but the major doesn’t look at them at all. The doctor’s optimism borders on naivete, and suggests the medical community is not adequately prepared to deal with soldiers’ psychological trauma.
The Doctor Quotes in In Another Country
The In Another Country quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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When he came back, there were large framed photographs around the wall, of all sorts of wounds before and after they had been cured by the machines. In front of the machine the major used were three photographs of hands like his that were completely restored. I do not know where the doctor got them. I always understood we were the first to use the machines. The photographs did not make much difference to the major because he only looked out of the window.
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The Doctor Quotes in In Another Country
The In Another Country quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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In Another Country
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When he came back, there were large framed photographs around the wall, of all sorts of wounds before and after they had been cured by the machines. In front of the machine the major used were three photographs of hands like his that were completely restored. I do not know where the doctor got them. I always understood we were the first to use the machines. The photographs did not make much difference to the major because he only looked out of the window.
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