Guy Crouchback

The hero of Waugh's saga is a most agreeable sort; as I noted he is my age and I feel akin to his temperment, even if he has been afforded a measure of leisure beyond my circumstances. His faith is what I find the most interesting. He appears drawn to the ritual of Catholicism, if only because of its structure not because he feels the pull and sway of anything metaphysical. His peculiar circumstances of being divorced, displaced, and of an esteemed family which has gracefully faded into near-oblivion: his responses to officers training strkes me as modest and I remain intrigued.