Chapter 8, Round Character

Throughout the book, I find Billy to be a round character, but I believe that it is very evident in chapter eight. Billy is very dynamic depending on which time in his life that he is reliving. For example, when the barbershop quartet, The Febs, play at Billy's eighteenth wedding anniversary, he becomes very upset. He goes upstairs, away from the party, to be alone and thinks about the night of the destruction of Dresden. Although he "did not travel in time to the experience," he only remembers it as a memory (177). He remebers the terror of the seeing Dresden left in pieces, and becomes even more upset. He then time travels to Tralfamadore where Montana Wildhack is six months pregnant and waiting on him. He tells her the story of the destruction of Dresden. Billy is a round character throughout this chapter, because his mood changes throughout the chapter as well as his emotions.