Dissatisfaction Quotes in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

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Quote #10

How does it all come to be, that's what he wants to know, not just the how but the why of all this stuff. Only in America, apparently. Only America could take such a product-intensive sport and grow it into the civic necessity it is today.

He's not sure what he's just seen in here, but it seems to have made him sick. (XXL.102)

We're getting a distinct whiff of Holden Caulfield Syndrome off of Billy. He's just so dang disgruntled about everything…but war will do that do you, we guess. Fine, Billy. You get a pass on this one. Especially because, well, the people surrounding Billy here really are phonies.