Finished!

I finally finished!

To finish it up, everyone kind of has this "tragic" ending. However the way the narrator states it, it kind of sounds like: "Yeah...whatever" type of tone.

Vonnegut mentions Shakespeare! The quote fits perfectly in the story:
"All the word's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many
parts....?"

I thought this quote seemed to summarize the entire story very well. The way the characters were described was that they were all playing a game. Mary, who was manipulative. The man who marries old widows for their fortunes. It is all a game of life, like Monopoly.

The final chapter, the narrator takes us through his time. He mentions he has gotten one teenage girl pregnant and says he has learned his lesson. However he says it in a way where he just seems to brush the lesson aside. The ending seemed like a cliffhanger. The narrator says he can't speak Swedish but the doctor says he'll learn.

I don't feel like this was one of Vonnegut's best books. In fact, many critics think it's his worst. I'm reading another book by him and I hope it's better than this.