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Mary Anne was the "normal" girl in that time. She was what people expected girls to look and act like.

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- "A tall big boned blonde." (89)
- "She was seventeen years old, fresh out of Cleveland Heights Senior High." (89)
- "She had long white legs and blue eyes and a complexion like strawberry ice cream." (89)
- "Out on the volleyball court she wore cut-off blue jeans and a black swimsuit top, which the guys appreciated..." (91)

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- "The girl seemed tired and somewhat lost, but she smiled." (89)
- "...a bubbly personality, a happy smile." (90-91)
- "... and in the evenings she liked to dance to music from Rat's portable tape deck." (91)
- "At times she gave off a kind of come-get-me energy, coy, and flirtatious..." (91)

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"Mary Anne and Mark Fossie had been sweethearts since grammar school. From the sixth grade on they had known for a fact that someday they would be married, and live in a fine gingerbread house near Lake Eerie, and have three healthy yellow-haired children, and grow old together, and no doubt die in each other's arms and be buried in the same walnut casket. That was the plan." (90)

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- "Though she was young, Rat said, Marry Anne Bell was no timid child. She was curious about things." (91)
- "During her first days in-country she liked to roam around the compound asking questions: What exactly was a trip flare? How did a Claymore work... She paid attention." (91)
- "Often, especially during the hot afternoons, she would spend time with the ARVNs out along the perimeter, picking up little phrases of Vietnamese, learning how to cook rice over a can of Sterno, how to eat with her hands." (91).

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After she had spent some time in Vietnam, she had pretty much completely transformed into the exact opposite girl she came as.

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Mary Anne became more intrigued about the war, particularly the land and mystery that surrounded it.
- “She began pestering Mark Fossie to take her down to the village at the foot of the hill… He tried to tell her that it was a bad idea, way too dangerous, but Mary Anne kept after him” (O’Brien 91).
- “She picked up on things fast when four casualties came in, Mary Anne wasn’t afraid to get her hands bloody. At times, in fact, she seemed fascinated by it” (O’Brien 93).
- “her body seemed foreign somehow- too stiff in places, too firm where the softness used to be” (O’Brien 95). The longer she stayed, the more she became unrecognizable and overall different, yet according to her, it made her the happiest she’s been in her entire life.

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- She hangs out with the hard-core, mysterious Green Berets and leaves her poor dumb boyfriend behind as she spends her evenings out on ambush.
- Mary Anne couldn't hide that she wanted more than just a life of settling down with Mark and starting a family with him. "At first, Rat said, Mary Anne seemed to accept it, but then after a day or two she fell into a restless gloom, sitting by herself at the edge of the perimeter..."
- Mark realize that maryanee has been sneaking off and taking part in ambush, he knew that the woman he love has changed.
- Mary Anne wanted to say in Vietnam, and she said they could wait for marriage. To Mark, “her body seemed foreign somehow- too stiff in places, too firm where the softness used to be” (O’Brien 95).

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Mary Anne Post Vietnam Illustration Summary

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Mary Anne Post Vietnam Illustration Summary

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Mary Anne gradually changed into an 'animal-like hunter', even being described as wearing a necklace that contains tongues hanging off of them. She morphed into a different person than when she arrived. Her Post Vietnam look represents what war can do to a person.

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Mary Anne Post Vietnam Illustration Summary

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Mary Anne Post Vietnam Illustration Summary

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When Mary Anne had first arrived to stay with her boyfriend during the war, she was pretty much the stereotype for women and girls in that time. This picture represents her because they're both a stereotype of women during then.

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“It was nearly three weeks before she returned. But in a sense she never returned. Not entirely, not all of her” (O’Brien 100).
-  “She stepped out of the shadows. At least for a moment she seemed to be the same pretty young girl who had arrived a few weeks earlier” (O’Brien 105). Yet after looking at her for a while, the change in her appearance was visible as stated by Rat, “There was no emotion in her stare, no sense of the person behind it. But the grotesque part, he said, was her jewelry. At the girl’s throat was a necklace of human tongues” (O’Brien 105).
- she is consumed by war that is all she thinks about. she goes off into the jungle and comes back when she pleases.

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Mary Anne became more intrigued about the war, particularly the land and mystery that surrounded it.

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Mary Ann also functions as a symbol of American arrogance. When she first arrives in Vietnam, she just assumes she is safe and won't be harmed. She acts like a tourist, going where she pleases and marveling at the simplicity of the country. She swims freely in a river where she could be a target of sniper fire.

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necklace wrapped around her neck that was made out of human tongues. The tongues represented her desire to consume all of Vietnam.

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There was a new confidence to her voice, a new authority in the way she carried herself. In many ways she remained naive and immature, still a kid, but Cleveland Heights now seemed very far away.