ress and anxiety that he experiences while at war. After his death, the soldiers talk about how "incredibly tranquil he was" while smoking "dead man's dope" (19). Lavender has to use drugs in order to change his perception of the war going on around him. Also, in the later part of the novel, O'Brien talks about the man he killed. Through the description and his ironical fantasy of the enemy's soldier being like himself in many ways, he portrays the deep sorrow that he feels after the grenade exploded. With the use of imagination, O'Brien feels his guilt in a death of a man who was in the prime of his life. As he imagines that the dead man "w
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