Should Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried be regarded as a collection of independent short stories, or rather as a unified novel? To support your argument, you should draw evidence from the text. In addition to elements of the story, you might also examine how O’Brien uses narrative voice, focalization, interest, metafiction, etc. (some combination, one, or all of these narrative devices) to tell the story. Observing these features of the text might help support your thesis.
