How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
This only takes a couple of moments, but while he's scribbling his name it dawns on Billy that these smiling, clueless citizens are the ones who came correct. For the past two weeks he's been feeling so superior and smart because of all the things he knows from the war, but forget it, they are the ones in charge, these saps, these innocents, their homeland dream is the dominant force. His reality is their reality's b****; what they don't know is more powerful than all the things he knows, and yet he's lived what he's lived and knows what he knows, which means what, something terrible and possibly fatal, he suspects. To learn what you have to learn at the war, to do what you have to do, does this make you the enemy of all that sent you to the war? (Proud.168)
Deep Thoughts with Billy Lynn, everybody. Basically, what Billy's saying that the reality Americans are living in is an illusion. More than that, it's all illusion that Americans don't want to give up. Billy knows it's an illusion, so in a way, he feels he's now become the enemy of these people. What do you think—is he right?