The Three Musketeers

     Chapter two also included an introduction to Billy Pilgrim's adventures in World War II. Pilgrim walks around with no gun and no knife, but is fortunately picked up by two scouts and an antitank gunner named Roland Weary who has suffered through a horrific childhood. Being unpopular at home, most likely because of his obsession with torture and beating people up, he brought that chip on his shoulder with him to Germany. So, when he finally found two scouts that he liked working with and who seemingly liked to work with him two, he began to call them the Three Musketeers. Then, however, Billy Pilgrim showed up.
     At that point, Pilgrim did not really seem to care about whether or not he survived the war. Nevertheless, The Three Musketeers, but mostly Weary, took it upon themselves to care of him despite Pilgrim telling them many times to keep going without him. To me, it seems as if Weary's abandonment issues are leading him keep Pilgrim by his side at all times, even if he doesn't really like him. Countless number of times, Weary would remind Pilgrim how he saved his life. For example, after the marksman missed Billy on the second bullet, he reminded him again by saying, " 'Saved your life again, you dumb bastard,' " (34).
     In the end of the chapter, as all four of them were behind German lines, readers were again given a glimpse of the abandonment issues he suffers through. Weary, who dresses a lot like Randy from A Christmas Story (see the picture below), was again ditched by the two scouts. His reaction, which was placing all of the blame on Billy Pilgrim and beating him up in the creek, showed that this obviously affected him.