Models of masculinity "generated powerful anxieties about male identity" (history.ac.uk, 2016). Further studies found that the majority of identities displayed in written messages to loved ones, compared to military comrades, show different identity constructions created by men compared to different narrative forms. “The expression of these identities was influenced by the audience it was addressed to” in order to define the character desired by the people they are writing to. The personality these men took on allowed them to mask their fear and anxieties during the war and they were able to show their courage through a written medium; arguably it could be linked to the rise of the male crisis and how personal barriers were built to show an ideology of what the world wanted you to be; compared to how the men actually felt. The influence of the male model of manhood and the ideas that society wanted men to conform to, versus those who did not show their pain and suffering, were praised: "the complex, overworked neurasthenic officer was much closer to an acceptable, even heroic male." ideal' (History.ac.uk, 2016). These men were heroes in the eyes of society because they showed their strength during a time of desperation. Recognizing a period of increased male dominance just 50 years ago, it showcases that masculinity and