Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In this excerpt, Henry Fleming and his regiment are leaving an unsuccessful battle, and Henry is discussing their performance and their leadership.
"Good Gawd,” the youth grumbled, "we’re always being chased around like rats! It makes me sick. Nobody seems to know where we go or why we go. We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it’s done for. It makes a man feel like a . . . kitten in a bag. Now, I’d like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into these woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us. We came in here and got our legs all tangled up in these cussed briers, and then we begin to fight and the rebs had an easy time of it. Don’t tell me it’s just luck! I know better.
Which sentence best expresses Henry’s perspective in this excerpt?
He feels ill after his regiment has lost their previous battle.
He feels frustrated and confused about the purpose of the orders.
He feels fortunate to have survived the previous battle.
He feels doubtful about his fighting skills and abilities as a soldier.
