The Things They Carried: Possessions Of Character

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for the rest
of the war." He does not always pay attention to what is most important, his
men. Lt. Jimmy Cross burns all of Martha's letters at the end of the story,
trying to forget her, to erase the memory. Still, he carries her in his mind
along with the haunting memory that she was not involved. Martha is just a part
of the technicalities now, he bids her farewell in his mind and decides to rid
himself of the pebble. He is past his days of dreaming and hoping. Everything
that Lt. Cross carries has more physical weight than those letters, but none
were more of a burden to him.
Everything that Jimmy Cross carries bears more physical weight than the
letters. Nothing, however, seems to be nearly as much of a burden. Cross is an
ignorant young man going into the war. Lavender's death and everything going on
around him opens his eyes to the immediate dangers. What he has, both inside
and outside, have kept him from realizing this. "His obligation was not to be
loved but ...

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