Kurt Vonnegut Language Analysis

Kurt Vonnegut attempts to distance himself from any possible emotions he could feel about the situation and maintain the books overall informal tone with language that is distant, neutral, and occasionally harsh. On page 234 he discusses Valencia’s reaction to finding out her husband Billy was in the hospital. He described her crying over her husband as ‘yelping’, which is usually defined as being done by a dog, not a woman who was crying over being notified her husband was in the hospital. He also described her as ‘babbling’ when talking about her husband's death to a stranger, babbling is usually seen as someone rambling nonsensically and not someone mourning over an assumed loss. Then finally when Valencia dies from carbon monoxide poisoning