Mary Anne and 'The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong"
This paper explores the personal world of Mary Anne, a character in Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong," in the novel/short story collection _The Things They Carried._ the paper deals with the Mary Anne's ambiguous relationship with the land and the people of Vietnam and her desire to learn about the Vietnamese and live like them.