Slaughterhouse-five #6

In the book Slaughterhouse-five written by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim loses his marbles. He completely loses touch with reality and begins to incorporate everything that he is witnessing in his real life into what is going on in his fake reality dream planet that he lives on with a pornstar. I see how Vonnegut developed this sense of insanity through his use of picking up on what Billy Pilgrim sees around him and how he interacts with the people in his life and then reflects that into his alternate reality where he is ruled by aliens. The author that he continually writes about is brought up at this point and gives a bit of comic relief by actually having some of his books displayed in a window front at a bookstore in New York City. I find this part to be of utter importance because for this one time Billy reads what he has been trying to convince the reader the entire time and clues us in to the fact that he is insane. He begins reading about a book that he has previously read that is exactly what he has been telling the reader to be truth for the majority of the book. From the phrase "So it goes" to the travel to the planet far away, Billy has kept up this scheme for too long and it has been shot down now. Another clue that I found to be of greater importance that Vonnegut included was that, "He had read it before-years ago, in the veterans' hospital,"(201). This kind of points to the idea that his craziness is a mesh of what happened to his wife that pushed him over the edge and how the war affected him in such a critical way. It put him at a mental state that not many could over come, and within that vulnerability he broke his psych and forever believed what non others would understand.