So, for the 10th and final chapter, I decided to try and tackle the whole "So it goes.." repetition that Vonnegut used throughout the novel. At first, I thought of it as sort of a coping device that Billy Pilgrim used to accept death. Now, however, I see it as something he used to try and help explain death. Whether or not this is a way to question his insanity is a death in itself, but I genuinely believe that this is what he thought about death. Billy Pilgrim thought that death was just one moment in time, and that there were many, many more when that person was alive and happy. The "So it goes.." it merely something he said to remind himself of that.
That is exactly what I thought, Collin. I wrote something similar on my last post. I thought that Billy merely said "So it goes..." to accept the fact that life goes on and we should not dwell in the past. I thought Billy was thinking about the past too much. This was a great post.
ReplyDelete