Why could Jimmy be called ‘a hero of his time’?

He is not a hero in the classical sense, he's a modern day anti-hero. He's the angry, young man fighting against society and challenges the limitations of his own life and place in the world. His anger is destructive...... his actions would often be considered pure violence; thus, he is the anti-hero.

Ya! Jimmy can be consider as an hero of his time because he became the mouth piece of the fustrated and disatisfied young people,effected by the 2nd world war. Jimmy is ofcourse distructive,an he is not to be blam for it...it is the soceity who evoks the distructive nature in jimmy.