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Essay Archive - An Analysis of William Styron's "The Long March"
An Analysis of William Styron's "The Long March"
The novel The Long March by William Styron is a prime example of
anti-war, anti-goverment, and anti-military writing. William Styron uses
marine reserves, that are forced to make a 36 mile march that they are not
prepared for, to show the brutality and hypocrisy in the leaders of this
country. The reserves are people that have been out of the service for many
years, but have just been called back into service. A terrible accident has
just occured at the base they are stationed at. A mortar volley landed off
the mark onto of a line of young soldiers waiting....
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