SOURCE: Smith, Lorrie N. “‘The Things Men Do’: The Gendered Subtext in Tim O'Brien's Esquire Stories.” Critique 36, no. 1 (fall 1994): 16-40.
In the following essay, Smith examines the representations of masculinity and femininity in five of the stories in The Things They Carried.
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