O Brien Character Analysis

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The narrator O’Brien, witnesses a lot of deaths in Vietnam and instead of becoming depressed and irrational like most people do he and his soldier buddies came up with a different way to cope with death. They act as if the dead are still alive and keep on treating them as if they are alive. During this time O’Brien has a flashback to his first love Linda. O’Brian and Linda lived in a small town in Minnesota. At age nine O’Brien asks Linda out on a date. O’Brien’s parents escort the two love birds to the movies where they see The Man Who Never Was. On the way to the movie O’Brien wants to confess how much she means to him; however, he chickens out and loses his chance. This movie was a horrible war movie that scared O’Brien. Back to Vietnam,

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