Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: A Second Re

Tim OBriens The Things They Carried: A Second Revision         In Tim OBriens The Things They Carried, a distinction is made among Tim and Timmy when OBrien speaks of Linda and his truer than true love and understanding for her. She called him Timmy while she was hot and dead, except she never did really dieshe was present in Timmys dreams. This distinction between Tim and Timmy is that the older Tim now excuse keeps the younger Timmy inside himself.

        At forty-three OBrien says that he is young and happy and that he will never die. He implies that nine-year-old Timmy lingers within Tims mind, body, and soul. Linda comes into play when OBrien creates her as a representation of Timmy. Similarly, Tims young spirit has experienced his cause past in growing up and undergoing changes like that of Lindas, to begin with and after her death. As a writer now, OBrien wants to have Lindas sprightliness. Not her bodyher life (236). This quotation shows that Linda is Timmy because subsequently in the chapter OBrien links it to his realization of Tim trying to give up Timmys life with a apologue (236) by giving both quotes the same definitionthat the story of Timmys life is the story of Lindas.

        In this book Timmy vicariously lives through Linda, who acts as a medium. This warm place is where he is able to spill over out all of his dreams and emotions without having any feeling of humility or awkwardness. After she was dead, Linda said Timmy, stop crying (232); OBrien animates Linda by allowing her to speak after her death because he feels that that is what a story does. OBrien means that the story of Linda represents Timmy. The young boy, nine, was so strangely similar to Linda that Tims story of her had to be...

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