{"id":5218,"date":"2019-12-18T02:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:21:12","slug":"the-dentist-the-things-they-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-dentist-the-things-they-carried\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Dentist&#8221;\u2014The Things They Carried: Why Does Lemon Faint?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What happens in the chapter &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>? How does &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; convey the pressure to be &#8220;manly&#8221; during war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll look at the basic elements of &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; (<em>The Things They Carried<\/em>) and look at the lengths men will go to in order to prove their masculinity, especially in times of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;The Dentist&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, O\u2019Brien tells his own<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/curt-lemon-the-things-they-carried-a-macho-soldier-faints\/\">Curt Lemon<\/a> story. He recalls an Army dentist who visited the company one day to check in on the men\u2019s teeth. Lemon, for all his bravado, fearlessness, and exploits in combat, was, for some reason, deathly afraid of going to the dentist. When it came time for Lemon to have his teeth examined, he fainted.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a man like Lemon in a place like Vietnam, this was a deeply embarrassing episode. He <em>couldn\u2019t <\/em>face the other men after this \u201clapse\u201d in his masculinity unless he made things right. So that evening, as told in &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, he went into the dental tent complaining of a toothache and insisted that the dentist extract what was, in fact, a <em>healthy <\/em>tooth.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although in great physical pain, Lemon was in bright spirits the next morning. He had performed his penance and avenged the dishonor he\u2019d done to himself by fainting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Story of Curt Lemon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Related to the chapter &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em> is a story about Curt Lemon from medic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/rat-kiley-the-things-they-carried\/\">Rat Kiley<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rat had served with Curt Lemon, who was known for volunteering for the most dangerous combat assignments, like late-night reconnaissance missions and patrols. Lemon was also celebrated for being a daredevil with what his fellow soldiers saw as a terrific sense of humor. According to Rat, Lemon once went out to a Vietnamese village, nude except for a mask and full body paint, to go \u201ctrick-or-treating,\u201d bewildering the villagers in the process.&nbsp;This is similar to the bravado and shows of masculinity demonstrated in &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lemon was killed in action when he accidentally stepped on a landmine while he and Rat were goofing off by tossing smoke grenades back and forth. Again, the macho attempt to show no fear is reminiscent of &#8220;The Dentist&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>. The men even had to retrieve Lemon\u2019s mangled remains out of a tree, during which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/dave-jensen-the-things-they-carried\/\">Dave Jensen<\/a> sang the song \u201cLemon Tree,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/advantages-of-laughing\/\">laughing<\/a> in the face of death once again. Rat tells O\u2019Brien that he wrote a letter to Lemon\u2019s sister, telling her how much he loved her brother. When he didn\u2019t hear back from the sister, Rat was dismayed, then angered. <strong>In the coarse and brutalized language which the men have adopted, he tells O\u2019Brien that \u201cthe dumb cooze\u201d never wrote back.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Brien notes that the coarseness of Rat\u2019s language is what makes the story true, because it reflects the harshness of Vietnam. It is important that Rat says the vulgar \u201ccooze,\u201d and not \u201cwoman,\u201d \u201cgirl,\u201d or even \u201cbitch.\u201d He also observes that <strong>it is nearly impossible to arrive at literal truth in the fog of war<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/distorted-memories\/\">Memory is unreliable<\/a> (especially after time) and every witness remembers things differently. 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