Jimmy Cross And The Things They Carried

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Thanksgiving is one of America’s most celebrated and popular holidays. It is a day that most families get together, have a feast, and watch football. Despite these fun traditions, one of the most important things about Thanksgiving that is often overlooked is showing gratitude and thankfulness for all the things in your life. Many times, people just go about everyday life and do not realize how blessed some of their possessions are until they are gone. This is similar to Jimmy Cross in the short story, "The Things They Carried" and Mrs. Mallard in, "The Story of an Hour". Jimmy Cross was in the military, fighting a war in Vietnam and did not truly understand how much his other soldiers mattered to him until one of them died. Similarly, Mrs. …show more content…

Jimmy was not sure how he should approach the situation because he did indeed love Martha, but that love resulted in losses somewhere else in Jimmy’s life. This caused Jimmy to feel a “sense of unreality” (Piedmont-Marton 1) because he could not even comprehend one of his soldiers dying. He did not realize that his love for Martha would affect the lives of his soldiers. In similar fashion to the way that Jimmy was unsure how to react when one of his soldiers died, Mrs. Mallard also did not know how to react to the death of her husband. Similarly to Jimmy Cross, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Mallard was unsure on how to feel about the death. Mrs. Mallard did not feel like she was in a healthy relationship, but deep down, she actually did love her husband. With this being Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts on her relationship, the news of her husband’s death caused Mrs. Mallard to initially have, “a paralyzed inability to accept its significance” (Chopin 1). Mrs. Mallard reacted to this because she truly did not know what to think of his death. She thought that her life would be way better because she could get out of her obligated relationship, but she truly did not …show more content…

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