when used in actual novels metafiction can be one of the most confusing concepts. According to writer, David Foster, “If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.” Tim O’Brien’s, The Things They Carried, uses this idea of metafiction in order to draw out real emotions from stories where story truth triumphs over happening truth. In the chapter “Spin”, Tim O’Brien uses forms of metafiction to show the true impact war has on soldiers psychologically