Ever since WWII women roles in war have significantly changed, during the second world war women took jobs in factories and abandoned their role as a housewife. Women became a very important part of the military during the Vietnam war. Estimates put around 11,000 women were stationed in Vietnam 90% of the women worked as nurses, helping to care and protect those who came injured from the battlefield. In “The things they carried” by Tim O'Brien, the author challenges women roles with Mary Anne. Mary Anne arrived in Vietnam as innocent as any civilian who has never experienced war can be. Mary Anne quickly adapts to the lifestyle of the soldiers when she when she began to bother her boyfriend to take her down to the village at the bottom of the
