“Goodbye to All That” by Robert Graves. The book begins with Robert Von Ranke Graves recounting a flashback to his childhood and growing up. Robert Graves was born on July 24, 1895 in Wimbledon, England. Early in the book he describes his description “My height is six feet two inches, my eyes gray and my hair black” (Graves 3). He calls it his "biographical convention," without saying it, Graves goes into a very detailed scenario of his family on both his mother's and father's sides. His mother is German and his father is Irish. He briefly describes the qualities that both parties have and what they have conveyed to him. His mother, being a very strict Christian, always imposed on him the beauty of life. It kept him and all the other children very innocent about the true worldview. He censored practically everything. "My mother raised us to be serious and to benefit humanity in some particular way, but she allowed us no hint of its dirtier aspects, intrigues and lust, believing that innocence would be the surest protection against them " (Graves 29). His mother told him that he was destined to be “if not a great man, at least a good man” (Graves 29). Early in the book he gives a lot of credit to his mother's German family. Here he states “I admire my German relatives; they have high principles and are simple, generous and serious” (Graves 5). Her mother moved to England at the age of eighteen as Miss Britain's companion. He describes her as a lonely old woman who had befriended her grandmother when she was an orphan, and had waited hand and foot for her seventeenth birthday. Her mother inherited £100,000 on Miss Britain's death. He adds that “The character of My Mother…… at the center of the sheet……r of English Literature at the Egyptian University in Cairo. After a few years of work he decides to return to England. Problems with Nancy begin to occur at home and they often make deals. After some agreement they decide to break up and Nancy takes the children with her. This was the last straw for Robert. He finally gives up his desire to never call England his home again, which explains the book's title. In conclusion, Robert was finally saying goodbye to all the things he knew. He was becoming restless about his life after the war. He didn't see the simplistic vision he grew up with. Goodbye to everything that says goodbye not only to its birthplace, but to everything that world has become. Robert does not want to be part of the change that society was undertaking and decides to say goodbye to England and everything else..