Tim O'Brien's The things they carried

Biographical sketch

The story behind the story

List of characters

Summary and analysis

Critical views. Clayton W. Lewis' "Chronicle of war" ; Pamela Smiley on the role of the ideal (female) reader ; Robin Blyn on O'Brien's The things they carried ; Catherine Calloway on "how to tell a true war story" : metafiction in The things they carried ; Maria S. Bonn on Tim O'Brien and the efficacy of the text ; Lorrie N. Smith on the gendered subtext in Tim O'Brien's Esquire stories ; Steven Kaplan on the undying uncertainty of the narrator ; Marilyn Wesley on truth and fiction ; David R. Jarraway on trauma and recovery in Vietnam War literature

Works by Tim O'Brien.