These dichotomized feelings reflect his inner struggle with masculinity and are mirrored in his feelings towards the people of Vietnam because he searches for his identity in both the land and the women of Vietnam. ... Tuon Bunkong, who wrote an essay concerning guilt and the effects of war, writes that Andrew is guilt ridden due to the fact that, "because his parents had money, his family was able to escape the kind of poverty that seems to permeate Viet Nam," (220). ... His uncertainties of culture and gender manifest themselves in his opinions about Vietnam, and the guiltier he fe...

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