Vera Brittain's day with her suitor, Roland, what sticks out to me the most because she is wondering if he will still be the same man she fell in love with before the war. This really hits me because it is what so many young women of the time were thinking when they met with their suitors during the war. So many men were changed by the war, mentally and physically and they were the ones who even came home. Vera Brittain's experience with Roland was interesting and indicative of the effects of the war. The fact that Vera Brittain did not know what to say to him and how to make him feel better about the war, reminded me how nervous these young women must have felt not knowing what to do to help those they loved. I think that this part of the book illustrates how shocking this war was to the British public as well as the men sent off to fight in the war. The culture was so unprepared for this war to occur and so when it did occur found themselves adjusting forcibly to the war in order to survive.