In the passage, “The Rainy River”, O’Brien receives a draft notice to join the Vietnam War. He has recently graduated Macalaster College and was also the president of the student body; all these accomplishments give reason to why he feels that he is too good to fight for the war. To think about what his next action was to be, he leaves to the rainy river that is at the border of Minnesota and Canada. There he is constantly contemplating whether he should flee or not; the sleepless nights, he struggles with his anger at the lack of perspective on the part of those who he cares about. On his last day at the Lodge, Elroy takes him on fishing on the river. O’Brien realized that he had stopped in Canadian territory and is eyeing the shoreline of