1.Conditions of living of everyday life during the war

• Misery(pag.23'Why,' came March's vague voice, 'what do you want to waste your money for?''I thought it would be well spent,' said Banford.'I wasn't thinking of anything except the way the wind was blowing,' said March.'Oh dear,' replied Banford, 'I could have had as original thought as that myself. I'm afraid I have wasted my money this time.'

• Lack of food(“War conditions, again, were very unfavourable to poultry-keeping”, pag.2; “Rapidly and carelessly she prepared the meal, cutting large chunks of bread and margarine--for there was no butter” pag.9;Banford flew into the village on her bicycle to try and buy food. She was a hospitable soul. But alas, in the year 1918 there was not much food to buy,pag.14; “He was gone. The captain, upset, took a gin and bitters. Henry managed to hire a bicycle. It was twelve o'clock when he left the camp. He had sixty miles of wet and muddy crossroads to ride. But he was in the saddle and down the road without a thought of food”.pag.54)
• Lack of protection, security and fear

2.Life at the frontline

• Hardship of life('Put the gun down,' she said. 'We'll make a cup of tea.' 'Ay,' said the youth. 'We've seen enough of rifles.'pag.8; “Also he ate largely and quickly and voraciously, so that March had to cut more chunks of bread and margarine, for the roughness of which Banford apologized”,pag.10;” He was gone. The captain, upset, took a gin and bitters. Henry managed to hire a bicycle. It was twelve o'clock when he left the camp. He had sixty miles of wet and muddy crossroads to ride. But he was in the saddle and down the road without a thought of food”.pag.54)

• Young age of most soldiers(“The young man--or youth, for he would not be more than twenty--now advanced and stood in the inner doorway”, pag.6; “seeing something boyish in the round head with its rather long, sweaty hair”,pag.7; he went to ask for twenty-four hours' leave of absence.pag.53)

3.Role of women

Need of independence and autonomy('Oh, well,' broke in March, 'we don't believe in living for nothing but work.''Don't you?' he answered. And again the quick young laugh came over his face. He kept his eyes steadily on the obscure woman in the corner.'But what will you do when you've used up all your capital?' he said.'Oh, I don't know,' answered March laconically. 'Hire ourselves out for land-workers, I suppose.', pag.11

• 'Yes, but there won't be any demand for women land-workers now the war's over,' said the youth
• Difficulty to face everyday life
• Absence of men(strength, support for the family unit, feelings)( “He was a huntsman in spirit, not a farmer, and not a soldier stuck in a regiment”pag.17;

p.8'And now have you just come from France?' 'Well--from Salonika really.

p.30. It seemed to him it would be the last of the foxes in this loudly-barking, thick-voiced England, tight with innumerable little houses.

Pag.51 his camp was on Salisbury Plain