Chapter 3

In this chapter, Vonnegut goes into more detail about the main character, Billy, who seems to be deeply traumatized by the war. Billy has several problems such as his unexplainable weeping, hallucinating, falling asleep while examining patients, and then needing his "Magic Fingers Vibrator" to help him get to sleep at night. The author calmly presents this character as crazy and by describing what is going on in Billy's mind, Vonnegut creates an indistinguishable line between fact and fiction. Billy resembles many people who have seen the horrors of war and then suffer from post-tramatic stress disorder.