From the first few lines I instantly think of a struggle to sleep or insomnia. Greegor struggles to go back to sleep and fights himself whether to go back to sleep. It brings me back to The Sun Also Rises, and Jake's struggle to sleep at night, all of the characters struggle with sleep but Jake's was more personal. Jake fights with himself to sleep or not to sleep. The struggle to sleep for many during this generation was something all too fimilar and a strong theme in The Sun Also Rises. The characters refused to sleep because many of them had nightmares that did not allow them to sleep. So because of that, the characters would struggle and fight with themselves to not go back to sleep because they did not want to relive those same dreams. Another thing that reminded me of The Sun Also Rises is the fact that Gregor cannot find true friendship because of his job, which was another strong theme in The Sun Also Rises. All of the characters interactions in The Sun Also Rises were not anything more than lets get drunk and enjoy ourselves. Their "friendships" were all surface types of friendships, there was nothing in depth about them or any real feelings to them.

The other book that I am reminded of is Testament of Youth. I am reminded of this because when Gregor wakes up in the beginning, he realizes he is not himself anymore. He has transformed and described himself as "a vermon." I am reminded of Britain and how she also viewed herself transformed. After all of the things she had seen during the war, she believed herself to be cold and changed. Each did not view themselves as what they had previously known.