The Beauty Passages

I think he wants use beauty to cover up the pain that he went through during his time in the war. he has a story to tell about a war he did not Love but to cover up for the hate he used things that people would call beauty. O' Brian may be a sensitive man that was thrown into the cusp of war, death, pain, emotional and physical trauma. He includes beauty in this novel kinda like why there are murals and art in the ghettos of America. To make pretty of the ugly