The play has three acts taking place over the set of 4 days. The confined timespan and claustrophobic setting and the overwhelming feeling of doom help to create a sense of unity in the play. The apparent disorganized nature of events is surely a reflection of the chaos of the war and where things do not follow a pattern. All the action of the play takes place in the dugout where the British soldiers eat and sleep. The warren like nature of the dugouts with their entrances and exits lend themselves to the stage. Perhaps more importantly the dugout allows Sherriff present a real life image of the trenches what people call a nostalgic journey into the past. The importance of the dugout setting is indicated at the start of act 3 when the stage directions say ˜the earth wall glows with a light'. They did not know when the war would end therefore they spent a lot of time doing nothing and waiting about. Their boredom was not helped by their cramped up conditions of the trenches. These conditions therefore allowed a closeness between the soldiers which Sherriff explorers during act 3. The fact that even in these awful conditions the men can still have a joke about women ""not in these trousers  she said in French  and the fact that their loyalty and bravery brings them together is emerged throughout Sherriff's writing. Conventionally in the third act we dramatically see how the character is able to succeed or become a better person. Resolution ties together the loose ends of the story (not necessarily all of them) and allows the reader to see the outcome of the main character's decision at the climax. For journey's end we see this between Stanhope and Raleigh in the final scene, until then Stanhope is still his cold-hearted self. If we approach the structure in terms of mood, we can see that Sherriff varies this to a great effect. He moves from moments of calm to tension, light relief to drama, joy to sadness and anger to peace. He wa