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The Things They Carried: Critical Essay by Christopher Michael McDonough

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Tim O'Brien
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SOURCE: McDonough, Christopher Michael. “‘Afraid to Admit We Are Not Achilles’: Facing Hector's Dilemma in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.1 Classical and Modern Literature 20, no. 3 (spring 2000): 23-32.

In the following essay, McDonough utilizes “the tragedy of Hector” from the Iliad to glean insight into The Things They Carried.

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