The overall meaning and story are based around flashbacks filled with emotional guilt, which the narrator wants to redeem. In Tim O'Brien's short story, “On the Rainy River” the author struggles with decision as to respond to a draft notice. Tim O'Brien's first starts his story confessing before he starting a flashback starting in June of 1968, a month after he graduated from Macalester College with a naive mindset of war. Soon later he was drafted in June 17, 1968, and began working in a Armour meat-packing plant in Worthington, Minnesota in the summer of 1968.The labour of meat-packing cause him to stink of pig and blood, he slowly start to gain a personal feeling towards war, a feeling similar to hate, blaming everyone but himself. So soon
