How does the major's behavior represent the modernist writer's take on life?

The major is stoic and regardless of the way that he doesn't think his hand will ever be repaired, he comes back to his physical treatment every day. The storyteller says the major does not have confidence in boldness nor in the machines used to treat him. The major has the disposition of an expert trooper. He is noble yet in addition extremely incredulous and skeptical about war and stays.