During the chapter Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, Rat Kiley's story about Mark Fossie and his girlfriend Mary Anne Bell is retold. In my opinion, this story could be classified as a tragedy. Mary Anne came to Vietnam as an "attractive", "young", and "innocent" girl. Her boyfriend, Fossie, was the one who arranged for her to come to Vietnam in the middle of the war, and she went through a huge change because of it. As she spent more time in Vietnam, Mary Anne slowly began to become a completely different person. She went from being an inexperienced seventeen-year-old highschool girl to being a fighter who had a craving for Vietnam and the war. I would call this story a tragedy because Mark Fossie and Mary Anne Bell could have had a happily ever after ending if she was never sucked into the war. Their whole life together had already been planned, but Fossie's small decision to bring Mary Anne closer to him during the war actually in the end caused them to split apart. For me, it was tragic to see two people in love torn apart with such horrible circumstances. If I were Fossie, living with that level of grief and regret alone would be catastrophc for me. Overall, love being defeated by war in this story is a tragedy.
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