This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. T...

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. The gentleman referred to in this passage is

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The gentleman referred to in this passage from George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man is Sergius. In the play, Raina shows a photograph of Sergius to Bluntschli and tells him that she is engaged to him. The passage highlights Raina's idealistic and romanticized view of Sergius as a patriotic hero, but as the play progresses, she begins to realize that Sergius may not be the perfect hero she had imagined him to be.