... - and post-enlistment societies. Baumer either can not, or chooses not to, communicate truthfully with those representatives of his pre-enlistment and innocent days. Further, he is repulsed by the banal and meaningless language that is used by members of that society. As he becomes alienated from his former, traditional, society, Baumer simultaneously is able to communicate effectively only with his ... ...

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... represents the childness and foolishness of nuclear warfare. Donald Barthelme believed that words in the English language could not move people and capture them so he "set out to create a banal world that fails to make distinctions of quality in people, things and ideas- (Elements of Literature 955). In the story the Game Barthelme fails to write about the qualities of ... ...

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