In the chapter "Love" Tim O'Brian Meets up with his friend Jimmy Cross and they talk about the war and Martha.
"For the rest of his visit I steered the conversation away from Martha. At the end, though, as we were walking out to his car, I told him that i'd like to write a story about some of this. Jimmy thought it over and then gave me a little smile. "Why not?" he said. "Maybe she'll read it and come begging. There's always hope, right?"
"Right," I said"
This excerpt on page 28 of The Things They Carried illustrates Jimmy's approval to be written about in Tim's book however later on page 29 Jimmy says "And do me a favor. Don't mention anything about-". I think that this states how everyone has their demons they must hide and Jimmy's demon hes learning to accept however has yet to be so comfortable with it to be made public knowledge.
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