Does Paul Berlin's Menace In Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?

In “Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” by Tim O’Brien, the main character Paul Berlin feels very menace on his first night in Vietnam. When Paul is walking through the rice paddy, the author writes, “The fear had been bundled and tight and he’d been on his hands and knees, crawling like an insect, an ant escaping a giant’s footsteps, and thinking nothing, brain flopping like wet cement in a mixer, not thinking at all, watching while Billy Boy Watkins died” (O’Brien 133). The fact that the author wrote this proves that Paul felt menace on his first night in war because he feels very small compared to the environment around him. He feared that he wouldn't survive because he was not familiar with the jungle. The war was not fought by men coming