Anderson is a medical officer who worked at a field hospital on the front, but now is a patient in Craiglockhart. Although Anderson is a surgeon, the stress and trauma of the front cause him to have a mental breakdown, leaving him with a manic fear of blood, ruining any prospects for his future medical career.
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Ralph Anderson Character Timeline in Regeneration
The timeline below shows where the character Ralph Anderson appears in Regeneration. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...quite enjoyed meeting him. At a different table, Sassoon’s mind wanders until another patient, Ralph Anderson, asks him if he golfs, and suggests that they should begin playing together. Across the...
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Chapter 4
Rivers meets with Anderson, who recounts a nightmare about being tied up with a corset and thrown in a...
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Chapter 8
In the golf club’s bar, Anderson mumbles an apology to Sassoon; when he lost the game, he’d been so enraged that...
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Chapter 13
...is shaving in his room, a nurse bangs on his door and tells him that Anderson started screaming in his room about blood. Rivers rushes to see him and finds that...
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Chapter 23
Rivers returns quietly to Craiglockhart for the board examinations. Anderson is up, but Rivers worries about him; his family still demands he return to medicine...
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