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June 30, 2019
Examination of Patriarchal Print in Tim O’Brien’s Work
    The present paper accounts Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and “The Lives of the Dead” as the grounding source of discussion while examining the central theme of the article excerpt of Susan Farrell’s "From Tim O'Brien and Gender: A Defense of The Things They Carried". Vietnam war has been one of the most significant events for the United States in its history to have taken a huge impact on its people as well as in the field of literature. Horrifying stories also considered fiction in a lot of ways have been recorded and written by storytellers. Tim O’Brien’s book recalls stories during his time in the war and has also brought a lot of critics to attention. The main discussion of this paper attempts to revolve around the main theme of Susan Farrell’s article which stands for a defensive argument concerning Tim O’Brien’s novel in the matter of gender while looking at the later and forming a subsequent reflective view.
    The article of Susan Farrell as suggested by the title itself takes a stand for a defensive view in terms of the controversial gender matter. It incorporates several views which debates the presence of minimalisation of female gender and its inferior representation in Tim O’Brien’s novel. Feminist scholars are found to be among the most overtly prominent critics against the novel, arising through the approach that the stories of war, Vietnam war, in particular, reflects the traditional form of patriarchal beliefs and hence encourages the same (Farrell 593). American and Vietnam women involved in the war may help better communicate about the traumatic experiences of women more deeply and it is crucial to lend space to this kind of literature (Kazemek 165). Farrell mentions Smith quotations concerning O’Brien’s book that “text offers no challenge to a discourse of war in which apparently innocent American men are tragically wounded and women are...