Yale University
How would you describe the speakers attitude toward his death?
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randell Jarrell
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randell Jarrell
The speaker seems to be just telling the story of his death in a relatively calm and unemotional way. The fact that he is describing his death in a relatively violent way and simply just talking about it seems completely surprising. The reader might have expected him to be more emotional about something so dramatic as death in a war.