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Dick Diver Identity

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After World War I, tension had risen between the old world and the new world, which had come to replace old. Dick Diver exudes grace, dignity, and fine manners that are associated with the old world, but also he is liberated and stands for pleasure-seeking that is connected to the new world; therefore, Dick exists in both the old and new world. Dick’s identity is in conflict; he is committed to hard work, integrity, and seriousness, but is also drawn to the freshness and vivacity of this new lifestyle the new world had brought. The scene of the trenches serves as the connection that Dick holds between the end of the old world and the coming of the new one. Even though Dick never first-handedly experienced the war, his world had changed because
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