Gender Roles In Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

The Things they Carried by Tim O’brien is a series of war stories that lean on the male perspective. If and when a woman appeared in the story, O’brien would idealize them as use for the soldiers when they came home with open arms and in hope for more. Women were used as a metaphor of innocents that the soldiers have to release to help for all the memories and horrors of the war. The innocents and fantasies of the book from the soldiers perspectives were used to either discriminate the women, or have them be treated like objects. Clearly, the men thought that they could overpower them during this generation as the women could not stand up for themselves or scared to do anything about it creating the gender roles in this book.

In “Sweetheart