Nick

Name /Details: Nick (last name unknown) aged between 21 and 24, He is Lewis’ friend and Lucy’s lover, He is a director of university plays.


Personal Qualities: The character Nick has many different personality traits;

Nick is very blunt and to the point with his directing. This is a good quality to have when you are a director as you need to take charge and assert your dominance.

Nick is also very idealistic in his views on the Vietnam War. This trait compiled with his nature to be very blunt and to the point ends up being the primary source of tension between himself an Henry, as their views about the war differ.

Another of Nick’s personality traits is his untrustworthy nature. An example of his completely selfish and despicable betrayal of Lewis is when he has sex with Lucy. Nick’s arrogance about the whole situation is shown when he quips to Lewis “No, she’s sleeping with you, we’re having sex”.

Relationships: Nick has a relationship as friends with Lewis and as a lover with Lucy even though Lucy and Lewis are together, this shows that nick cannot hold a good relationship as he is into free love. Henry and nick have a hate and hate relationship from the moment they saw each other, the situation was heated since day one when they found out that their personalities clashed

Conflict: He has conflict with Henry over the people in the play being Albanians and not Australian soldiers

Motivational goals: Nick is motivated to support bringing our troops over from the war and be with Lucy

Emotional and intellectual growth: He doesn’t really grow throughout the story he just stays in the same frame of mind throughout the book

Key quotes associated with characters:

“No, she’s sleeping with you, we’re having sex”.

“Barricades and bombs? Why Not?”

“A fuckin’ Mozart opera. Lucy can’t believe it either”

“They are going to take me away to the funny farm”

“Not only are they nuts, but they’re right wing nuts.”