5/9/2023 0 Comments The things they carriedShe was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roommates and midterm exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. More than anything, he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her, but the letters were mostly chatty, elusive on the matter of love. He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there. He would imagine romantic camping trips into the White Mountains in New Hampshire. In the late afternoon, after a day’s march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. John Ransom’s Andersonville Diary The Things They Carriedįirst Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. Those who have had any such experience as the author will see its truthfulness at once, and to all other readers it is commended as a statement of actual things by one who experienced them to the fullest. This book is essentially different from any other that has been published concerning the late war or any of its incidents. Ivan Nabokov, Les Ramirez, and, above all, AcknowledgmentsĬamille Hykes, Seymour Lawrence, Andy McKillop, Norman Bowker, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, This book is lovingly dedicated to the men ofĪlpha Company, and in particular to Jimmy Cross, The author wishes to thank the editors of those publications and to express gratitude for support received from the National Endowment for the Arts. On the Rainy River first appeared in Playboy. Speaking of Courage and The Ghost Soldiers appeared in Prize Stories: The O. The Things They Carried appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1987. Style, Spin, and The Man I Killed were first published, in different form, in The Quarterly. In the Field was first published in Gentleman’s Quarterly. Speaking of Courage was first published in The Massachusetts Review, then later, in a revised version, in Granta. Of these stories, five first appeared in Esquire: The Things They Carried, How to Tell a True War Story, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, The Ghost Soldiers, and The Lives of the Dead. ![]() Reading Group Guide copyright © 2009 HarperCollins Publishers, LLC.ĭiscussion questions written by Ally Peltier and Hannah Harlow Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007.įirst published in 1990 by Houghton Mifflin No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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