So it Goes
I am going to take a different stand from other points of argument. Instead of looking at the land of Tralfamadore as a truthful place within the plane of Slaughterhouse Five , I am going to look at it as if it isn't real, and instead Billy is traumatized by his experiences in the war. There are many examples that show this to potentially be the case within the book, from when and where he travels in time, to what he says. One of the first parallels between Billy's time travel and PTSD or something similar (I'm not going to try to diagnose him, I know far too little about psychology or anything like that to even make a laughable guess) is the first couple of times we see Billy time travel. From Vonnegut's telling of the story, we hear that billy first time traveled while in enemy territory with the two scouts and Roland Weary. In this event, Billy jumps several places, but some of the earliest are ...