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A 12 page paper which analyzes the film’s main characters of Homer Parrish, Fred Derry, and Al Stephenson, compares and contrasts bombardier Derry’s life with that of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace to determine what impact World War II had on American servicemen. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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from combat, their wartime experiences had profoundly changed them; they had gone off to war as innocent boys but returned as cynical men. What these veterans also discovered, much
to their collective surprise, was that the comfortable and secure small town America in which they had been born and raised was now practically unrecognizable. Capitalism and technology seemed
to have replaced those good old-fashioned values espoused by Uncle Sam and his flag. Lifes pace had quickened, and that which was once cherished had been run over by
the wheels of progress. Shortly after World War II ended, producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted to examine its impact from a human
perspective. He dusted off a nearly 300-page treatment by McKinlay Kantor entitled Glory for Me, and at the urging of director William Wyler, enlisted the services of screenwriter Robert
E. Sherwood to transform the melodrama into The Best Years of Our Lives, an impressively realistic examination of a trio of American servicemen - Al Stephenson, Fred Derry, and Homer
Parrish - and their reentry into civilian life (Beidler 589). The men, each of whom have had vastly different combat experiences, meet while returning to their hometown of Boone
City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-class Al had been a successful banker, was happily married to Milly and the father of teenaged son
Rob and elder daughter Peggy was a fledgling nursing student who was working at a VA hospital. Fred Derry was, literally and figuratively speaking, from the other side of
the tracks. He came from a lower class and dysfunctional family background and before the war had recently married Marie and worked as a soda jerk at the local
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