"He went East in February with the intention of selling out
his laundries and settling in New York--but the war came to
America in March and changed his plans. He returned to the West,
handed over the management of the business to his partner, and
went into the first officers' training-camp in late April. He
was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a
certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of
tangled emotion."(Chapter 5)
It was typical for a love relationship to be broken and lost in real life or in fictions, especially in the rustic World Wars. The tangled emotion he is having is from Judy marrying another person, leaving Dexter empty handed after abandoning Irene. He uses the war to have his mind off of the heartbreak.
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