Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

by Bloom, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780791081716
• ISBN10: 0791081710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-31
• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub

Summary

Essential for any student of literature looking to enhance his or her reading experience, Bloom's Guides are highly useful for test preparation, independent scholarship, or book group discussions. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(2)
Biographical Sketch	11	(2)
The Story Behind the Story	13	(3)
List of Characters	16	(4)
Summary and Analysis	20	(52)
Critical Views	72	(1)
Clayton W. Lewis' ``Chronicle of War.''	72	(2)
Pamela Smiley on The Role of the Ideal (Female) Reader	74	(12)
Robin Blyn on O'Brien's The Things They Carried	86	(3)
Catherine Calloway on `How to Tell a True War Story': Metafiction in The Things They Carried	89	(7)
Maria S. Bonn on Tim O'Brien and the Efficacy of the Text	96	(5)
Lorrie N. Smith on The Gendered Subtext in Tim O'Brien's Esquire Stories	101	(10)
Steven Kaplan on The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator	111	(9)
Marilyn Wesley on Truth and Fiction	120	(6)
David R. Jarraway on Trauma and Recovery in Vietnam War Literature	126	(8)
Works by Tim O'Brien	134	(1)
Annotated Bibliography	135	(3)
Contributors	138	(2)
Acknowledgments	140	(2)
Index	142

Excerpts

This collection of stories from Vietnam War writer Tim O'Briens paints a through picture of the soldiers' life in the Vietnam War.