Week 9.2: Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk


Reading:
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, 50-107


Study Questions:
1. The novel is concerned with authenticity and it contrasts this to what one character describes as bullshit. What constitutes authentic experience in the novel? What constitutes the inauthentic?

2. Both Kathryn, Billy’s younger sister, and Albert express doubts about the war. What are these
doubts? Does the novel endorse these views?