The overall message is that you shouldn’t make someone do something to help benefit your needs or desires and also it could end up really bad.
"But don't you see, dearest," she said, "that it wouldn't have come to this if it hadn't been in the order of Providence? And I call any war glorious that is for the liberation of people
who have been struggling for years against the cruelest oppression.”
"But now it doesn't matter about the how or why. Since the war has come, all that is
gone. There are no two sides any more. There is nothing now but our
country."
“But I think we had better emphasize your meaning that if we cannot
be one in everything we had better be one in nothing. So I am sending these
things for your keeping till you have made up your mind.”
Editha threatens him by saying she will not marry him unless he goes to fight for his country and that God made this to be war. She now realizes that she sent her husband into war and he may not come back, that he might die. Editha still thinks what she did was just. Editha talks to his mother and experiences an epiphany
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