How we cite our quotes: (Section.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
On the tiny square of floor, still dressed, the bundle she had carried opened and spread all around her, she crouched low.
And he saw her as the woman back there.
How the hell could you figure them?
She looked at him. They had used a bayonet. She was out of her mind. You, me, same. Same. She pointed to her eyes and his eyes. The Asian, folded eyes of some Chippewas. She was hemorrhaging.
Question her.
Sir, she is dying, sir.
"And anyway, what could I have asked? Huh? What the hell?"
Albertine was looking at him, staring at him. He realized he had spoken out loud. (9.1.60-67)
Albertine and the soldier (who turns out to be Henry Lamartine Junior) end up in a hotel together. Because Henry seems to be suffering from PTSD, he suddenly starts confusing Albertine with an injured woman he'd encountered back in Vietnam. He even starts talking to her as though she were the woman, which shows just how powerful those flashbacks are.
Quote #5
Near dawn, Albertine could not remember where she was. She could not remember about the dull ache between her legs. She turned to the man and made the mistake of touching him in his sleep. His name came back to her. She was about to say his name.
He shrieked. Exploded. (9.1.96-97)
In the morning, Albertine makes the mistake of trying to touch Henry when he's sleeping. Again, probably because of PTSD, he does not react well to being surprised in his sleep and wakes up screaming.
Quote #6
The one who went wild on me was unexpected. That was Henry Junior. All his life he did things right, and then the war showed him right was wrong. Something broke in him. His mind gave way. He was past all touch when he returned. I would catch his gaze sometimes and think I recognized it from somewhere. One day I knew. He had the same dead wide stare as the man in my playhouse. (15.1.70)
Now that Henry Junior is gone (apparently as a result of suicide), Lulu reflects on what went wrong. In her opinion, the war had somehow flipped everything upside down for Henry, making right into wrong and vice versa.