Donald Barthelme’s short story “Game” is about two men who are in the military and are stationed in an underground bunker. They are in charge of launching a nuclear missile if “certain events take place upon the console” (Barthelme 958). Barthelme uses literary devices such as metaphor, and repetition to enforce his theme. The theme that Barthelme has written about is that nuclear warfare is childish and stupid.
Throughout the story the narrator keeps talking about “The Bird”(Barthelme 958). This bird is a metaphor for a nuc
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