Charming Billy Essay

“Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” By Tim O’Brien tells about a man, Private First Class Paul Berlin, in the Vietnam War who was pretending he was not in the war. He does many things to get himself to stop thinking about being at war. The story’s theme is everyone in war, handles their situations differently, in their own special ways.
The narrator tells us that Paul Berlin is very scared because he doesn’t want to be in the war. To stop himself from thinking about it, he laug...