It is important to understand how different life situations provoke a variety of emotions that affect people in many ways. Very often, the most influential situation in a person's life is one that is catastrophic and life-changing. Because people generally don't like change, they are stuck in denial of their reality until they are forced to accept it. In War, a short story by Luigi Pirandello, a group of people are forced to hear each other's stories about their war-related hardships. Pirandello manipulated the tone of the story from dark and disengaged to emotional and heartfelt to reflect the characters' progression from denial to acceptance. While going through each character's stories, the author uses a bland tone that results in an emotional feeling. feeling of detachment for the reader. Coupled with the lack of specific names for the characters, the disengaged tone caused the reader to have no emotional connection to each character's story. Likewise, the characters were distant in their realization of how drastica...