Homework:
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, 226-65
Reading Quiz
Study Questions:
1. What are we to make of Kathryn’s idea that Billy not return to the war because he is too good
for the United States? Is this the right choice? Does the novel agree with it? How do we know?
2. The last paragraph on page 249 would seem to distill many of the themes of the novel—an
interest in the real, the religious (“a mystery”) as well as technological mediation. How do these
themes interact in this paragraph? Closely attend to the words on the page and discuss how
these thematic issues converge in this passage.
