Mary ann's character development by Asialee White https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk en-us 2023-04-24 15:07:08 UTC 2025-10-12 14:45:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 25whitea5 https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2565975007 "the men genuinely liked her...there was novelty to it; she was good for morale."(91)  The men liked her for how she was and how she can slowly mend them and put them back together she was something different a warm welcome with no judgment they look to her for comfort 
Her figure slowly changes throughout the story as of now she is a sexual object to take some heat off the war she personifies innocence to the soldiers this just shows you that no matter where you are who your with those gender rolls/expectations will follow 


]]> 2023-04-24 16:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2565975007 25whitea5 https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2565993046 "if the girl was nervous, she didn't show it. she seemed comfortable and entirely at home the hostile atmosphere did not seem to register."(92) The men finally start to realize that maybe she had this in her all along since day one maybe the war is what she needed to feel complete when you take woman and pull them out of the kitchen and living room and out of those normal places and play with reality and switch the rolls they can be a lot more than what the naked eye can see she is the walking breathing truth of the term “powerful woman” O'Brian is trying to show what happens when people break out of that "sexist mind set" ]]> 2023-04-24 16:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2565993046 25whitea5 https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2568771326 "she was a girl that's all I mean if it was a guy everybody'd say hey no big deal he got caught up in the nam shit" (102) basically saying that what she is going though is normalized in Vietnam the only difference is that she is a girl. This brings up the question of was this side to mary already in her and the war brought it out. did she adapt to the war or did it adapt to her. the war is now in her blood stream. nature v nurture the development mary ann got past those boundaries and restrictions and ran with it since vietnam mary was reborn ]]> 2023-04-26 13:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2568771326 25whitea5 https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2568799673 "sometimes I want to eat this place. the whole country the dirt, the death I just want to swallow it and have it there inside me. that's how I feel." (106) Mary ann loves her new self and is becoming obssesed with the war she finally has something that no one can take away from her she is in control, on top. she is finally free from all those restrictions. This land impacts people and shows peoples true colors. at this point Mary ann complete and utterly belongs to Vietnam and the war. O Brian sets an amazing example of mary ann. closed mouths dont get fed Mary was very submissive at first then she got more dominate the longer she stayed in Vietnam. she is her own boss mary Ann will "never get hungry again"]]> 2023-04-26 13:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/25whitea5/ub4o60dmwgg0iexk/wish/2568799673