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Disillusionment is what little heroes are made of.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Disillusionment, the speaker suggests, is the raw material of small-scale heroes: people become admired figures after their illusions crack. The line is wry and faintly deflating, implying that so-called heroism grows out of lost faith and hard lessons rather than untroubled idealism.
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