The Things They Carried

In the begining of chapter one " The Things They Carried", i was a little disturbed by the character Jimmy Cross. He is in love with someone who wasn't in love with him. He licked the envelope where Martha had licked it trying to taste her. Jimmy often has to trick himself when he's reading her letters or looking at her pictures because and the end she would write love, Jimmy wanted to believe that she loved him but he knew that love at the end was only a way of signing off. Jimmy also has made this presumption that Marth just must be a Virgin which is crazy because she has never mention anything of that nature. From this i feel as if Jimmy is a deranged person.