Notes on Short Stories:

The Things They Carried (Sources)

Contents:

Introduction
Author Biography
Plot Summary
Characters
Themes
Style
Historical Context
Critical Overview
Criticism
Further Reading


Sources

Bonn, Maria S. “Can Stories Save Us? Tim O’Brien and the Efficacy of the Text,” in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 36, No. 1, Fall, 1994, pp. 2-14.

Coffey, Michael. An Interview with Tim O’Brien in Publishers Weekly, February 16, 1990.

Harris, Robert R. “Too Embarrassed Not to Kill: A review of The Things They Carried,” in New York Times Book Review, March 11, 1990, p. 8.

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History, New York: Viking Press, 1983.

Myers, Thomas. Walking Point: American Narratives of Vietnam, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

O’Brien, Tim. “The Vietnam in Me,” in New York Times Magazine, October 2, 1994, p. 48.

Weber, Bruce. “A Novelist Wrestles With War and Love,” in New York Times, September 2, 1998.


 
 
 

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