Unsure of whom to trust in a time of tremendous moral ambiguity, the narrator's reliance upon God is tested when he sees his comrade and fellow soldier, Bobbie, dying in "a field of blood and stone."
Nesiguran kome vjerovati u vremenu strašne moralne dvoznačnosti, pripovjedačevo oslanjanje na Boga dolazi u pitanje nakon što ugleda svoga prijatelja i vojnika, Bobbieja, kako umire u "polju krvi i kamenja".