Self-confident The Description of Richard Winters’ Characteristic

32 with his men. One moment, there is a person who is wounded in Holland, but he rejoins up his men in Belgium. Winters thinks that he does not need to rejoin if he is still wounded. As Peacock left, Father John Maloney brought Joe Toye back from the aid station in Bastogne in his jeep. He dropped Toye off by the road. Toye started walking across the field toward the front line. Winters saw him, his arm in a sling, heading back toward the front. “Where are you going?”Winters asked. “You don’t have to go back to the line. “I want to go back with the fellows,” Toye replied, and kept walking p. 200. The text above shows that Winters is giving attention to his men. Joe Toye come with his arm in a sling and has conversation with Winters. He tells Joe, that he does not need to go back to the line, but Joe just acts as if there is nothing happened because his arm is recovered. It is analyzed based on Murphy’s 1972 theory of characterization. It is derived from the conversation of others p. 167. The war is almost over and Winters is asked by his ranking officer to take a patrol. He asked the men had a patrol. The patrol succeed to take the prisoner, but one man is killed. The next day, his officer asks Winters to take another patrol. He thinks that another patrol does not mean anything with one men killed, it is the same as suicidal. Colonel Sink was so delighted with the successful patrol, he ordered another one for the next night. In the meantime, however, it had snowed, then turned colder. The snow was frozen on top, crunchy, noisy. The cold air had cleared out the sky and the moon was shining. Winters thought a patrol under such circumstances was suicidal, so he decided to disobey orders. Sink and a couple of staff officers came to 2d Battalion CP to observe. They had a bottle of whiskey with them. Winters said he was going down to the river bank to supervise the patrol. When he got to the outpost, he told the men to just stay still. With the whiskey working on him, sink would 33 soon be ready for bed. The patrol could report in the morning that it had gotten across the river and into German lines but had been unable to get a live prisoner p. 234. The text above shows Winters cares about his men. Looking the situation at the current time, the war is almost over and both, Germany and ally do not do a frontal attack. It does not worth to take patrol that can probably kill his men. It is analyzed based on Murphy’s 1972 theory of characterization. It is derived from the thought p. 171.

8. Decisive

Winters is a decisive person. He could give a suitable decision for his Company during the combat. Taking Carentan, there is a moment when Easy Company stuck in the ditch and the men would not move out to the road. It is a crucial moment for him. He takes cover from the fire or asks the men to move out and to counter the attack. By this time, Winters furious. It had taken all night for regiment to get the men in position. Stop, move out, stop, move out, so many times that the men were worn out. “It shouldn’t have been,” Winters said. “It wasn’t that difficult. We had screwed away the night, just getting into the position.” There was no time for a reconnaissance; Easy had no idea what lay ahead. There was no artillery preparation, or air strikes p. 94. The text above shows that Winters has to take a good decision for the men in order to move out and achieve the objective. He was yelling to the men to move out from the ditch and grab the target. It is analyzed based on Murphy’s 1972 theory of characterization. It is derived from the reactions p. 168. Being the Executive Officer for regimental, Winters cannot directly control and lead Easy Company during the combat. Attacking Bastogne, Belgium, Easy Company faces a lot of Germany soldier. This attack is led by dike, but he could