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In The Things They Carried , Tim O´Brien talks about gender and how the roles of the war is different depending on gender.  He says when people think of war they don´t think of women, they think of men. Women are expected to make care packages.

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In The Things They Carried, O'Brien challenges traditional gender roles by offering a different perspective, portraying women as gentle and helpful, but also as strong and individual.

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In The Things they Carried, O'Brien does not reinforce traditional gender roles, but prioritizes telling readers what actually happened and how it felt. This is made apparent by O'Brien's use of historical accuracy and author's purpose.

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Tim O'Brien offers a different gender perspective in the novel The Things They Carried. O'Brien goes against the stereotype of women in war stories, and ventures into the idea of women being tough in war and men being more vulnerable.

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Tim O' Brien uses the development of female characters to de-gender the ideology of war being masculine and changes the perspective through women to show the effects of war on people in general.

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The Things They Carried challenges gender roles unlike other war novels and stories because it shows how women are connected to the war and how men need women to keep fighting

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Gender in "The Things they Carried" is very different from gender roles in other novels because women are seen as soldiers and and soldiers are seen as dependent on their wife's
or girlfriends back home.

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The Things They Carried shows a different perspective on gender rolls. Susan Farrell explains the way O'Brien was connecting the masculine story to experiences with women and life. Mary Ann transformed in the Sweetheart of the Song Tra bong and Dobbins connects innocence with the stockings.

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In the novel The Things They carried,Tim O'brien shows how woman connected and understood the war.Also shows how some were strong just like men.Women were like a escape form war for men.

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In Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", O'Brien uses multiple characters and their feelings/thoughts in order to diminish popular gender stereotypes by showing hyper masculine women, men in touch with their emotions, and how men revolve themselves around women.

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Tim O'Brien takes a different perspective on gender in the novel The Things They Carried by showing the effects of war on both men and woman in the stories "Night Life" and "The sweetheart of The Song Tra bong".

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In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien re-defines American masculinity and breaks down gender stereotypes by describing characters who go against the norms of society. He proves that women are powerful figures who can understand and adapt to the war and shows how not all men who go to war are strong and fearless.

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In The Things They Carried, O'Brien offers a nontraditional perspective on genders roles  and redefines masculinity in "The Things They Carried" and "Love".

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Tim O'Brien attempts to tell an accurate Vietnam war story by using his own experiences and knowledge of what happened (Historical Accuracy) and by stating his book writing purposes throughout the text.

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O'Brien offers a different perspective of women in the war by cleverly comparing certain men and women in The Things They Carried. He conveys the similarities between genders through the use of characters, Martha and Mary Ann.

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In The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, the status that all war stories suport masculine views is still true for this novel. O"Brien defines masculinity through the character of Curt Lemon and the short story of "How to Tell a True War Story."

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In Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", the author defies gender norms. The author does this by having a "model" of the ideal female, in the character Martha, and having the "model" be defied, in character Mary Anne. The author also, uses the same writing style in male characters, such as Norman Bowker. Using a realistic tone, the author proves that gender doesn't fit a specific mold.

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Throughout the novel, Tim O'Brien reveals that war is not a traditional gender specific topic that diminishes the value of female intellect, but instead includes them by understanding and feeling the acts of war.

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TIm O' Brien's "The Things They Carried" is able to accentuate a new feeling that takes female gender roles to a different level. Further explained in Susan Farrell's critical source, this "feeling" allows for the reader to fully grasp the concept of the empowerment of women.

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Tim O'Brien goes against gender stereotypes in The Things They Carried by giving female characters vital roles and depicting them as independent individuals.

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In "The Things They Carried", Tim O'Brien challenges traditional gender roles by using characters such as Mary Ann and Norman and through his war stories. He uses Mary Ann's transformation after coming to the battle field to show how war can affect both men and women.

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In "The Things They Carried", Tim O'Brien challenges genetic stereo types, by voicing his own opinion. O'Brien has some controversial views on women as a whole, and the way they are treated in the book.

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Tim O'Brien both challenges and reinforces traditional / stereotypical gender roles. He challenges them by showing strong positive female presence in his story / life (Linda), and reinforces them by showing "traditional" female behavior in Martha and Cross's relation ship.

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In “The Things They Carried”, O'Brien offers different perspectives in his war stories by challenging traditional gender roles through the characters in the chapters such as “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” and "Field Trip"

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In "The Things They Carried", Tim O'Brien defies gender stereotypes through the characters Mary Ann and Norman Bowker.

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In "The Things They Carried", Tim O'Brien goes against the norm and gives women a role in war. O'Brien shows that men are not always as headstrong as they seem, and that women are capable of doing things that men are normally associated with doing just as well.

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Traditional gender roles suggest that women can't learn, understand and grow from reading war stories as men are. In The Things They Carried Tim reinforces traditional gender roles by incorporating women in the story that are able to understand and gain knowledge from the war. Women do have the ability to go through the same process of understanding war as men do although traditional men think otherwise.

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In the novel "The Things They Carried", Tim O'Brien challenges traditional gender roles through the characters in "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" and "The Dentist".

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Through the male character of Norman Bowker and the female character of Mary Anne, Tim O'Brien, in his war book "The Things They Carried", is able to debunk the traditional stereotypes of males and females in most war books, thus, in a way, “de-gendering" the war.