Chapter 8: Internal Conflict

This chapter reveals the internal struggles that Billy has expierenced as the novel wears on. Specifically speaking, at this 18th wedding anniversary, a Barbershop Quartet sings at his wedding, which strangely drives Billy almost mad. Nobody is quite sure what happened to him or why he is so distrubed, but the next time they preform, it causes Billy to have to retire to his room. After walking in on his son in the bathroom,(who has a guitar on his lap while on the toilet,) Billy not only realizes that he really doesn't know his son that well, but also tries to figure out why the Quartet troubled him so badly. At this moment, Billy realizes that the faces of the singing Quartet, reminds him of the faces of those who died helplessly back on the night Dresden was destroyed. I guess it gives Billy a new opening into what stand point his mind is in; the sight of four wide-mouthed men symbolises the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. Maybe Billy is finally accepting the world around him, and becoming sane once again...stay tuned!