Ghosts

Tim O'Brien is not the same person he was at the start of the war, and even the person he was in the bush actually fighting the battles. Now he loads up helicopters and does work like a civilian on a base. He says the field took everything he was. There was a coldness inside of him. "I wasn't myself. I was hollow and dangerous" (197). Although in this book ghosts refers to the VC, it is almost like O'Brien turned into a ghost of a man. He doesn't feel part of his patroon anymore now that he is working at the base. It's like he's still numb from the morphine when he got shot in the butt. O'Brien seems like he is stuck in a cloud of negativity, wanting revenge on Jorgenson and feeling bitter that he's not in the bush.