What's the Connection Between the Book and the Fall of Cobll?

Eliot: I wanted to show the psychic dislocation that i was experiencing, which i imagine many of my colleagues were experiencing as the war ended. For me, my wife didn't know me during the wars and they were given sort of just as brief windw into what my life might have been like back then. And i wanted to show how that affects a family. Wit hen also seeing friends of ours who existed in our social life, you know,sort of my childrens, you know,. uncles, daddy was in the marines or at c i a with them.