Chapter 24 THE END

The regiment is commanded to retrace back to the river where they began. The war is over. Henry begins to recolect the past and the present. He looks back and frowns upon the coward he used to be and feels terrible for deserting the tattered man. But then he seems to forget about the past and think about the present and what he has accomplished. He has fought with courage and survived to tell about it. As the book ends Henry sits in the rain and imagines a world with peace and happiness. Then the rain stops and a ray of sunshine peaks through the clouds.
I think that the ray of sunshine shows a lot of symbolism. I think it shows the peace and brightness that Henry was imagining and also the end of the darkness of war.