Chapter three moved even more into what Billy Pilgrim was like and who he is exactly. Basically, he is set up as the , but is formed more into an antihero rather than someone who will actually go out and make an impact in the conflicts surrounding him. Through being captured and a prison of war, Billy is basically in a helpless situation in which he has no choice but to follow directions. However, he never even appeared as a threat to do so as Weary did. For example, when the German officers first searched him, "...the most dangerous thing they found on his person was a two-inch pencil stub," (54). In this war atmosphere, before anything happened with the abductions and aliens, he's painted by Vonnegut as basically an "Average Joe."
Additionally, another point in which he appears to be out of control of every situation is when he weeps. The thing that struck me eventually was that this had been taking place throughout most of his life. He wept in his house and saw a doctor in the 1960s, and when he went back in time in the 1940s, he was weeping again. This weakness that Vonnegut showed in his character was another aspect of him being an anti-hero and just an Average Joe protagonist in this story.
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