The Night in Question | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. For Wolff, and for many other men of his generation, the war in Vietnam was one of the defining moments of their lives. Among other writers who have dealt with the demands of combat, Tim O'Brien's collection The Things They Carried contains several stories which are considered classics of their type. How does Wolff's account in "Casualty" compare with O'Brien's work?
2. Most of Wolff's protagonists are young men. When his stories involve women, they are often subsidiary characters or foils for the protagonist. Is Wolff able to make the women characters realistic and...
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