The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried( Chapter One)

Why is it significant that Martha never mentions the war in her letters? What does she represent?

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Martha represents all that is not Vietnam. Her letters bring the illusion of a world without the Vietnam war. It is a surreal world but it brings comfort Jimmy Cross. 

 

 

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