Barbara Pilgrim
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Billy Pilgrim
Quote 1
"Did you hear what I said?" Barbara inquired. It was 1968 again.
"Of course." [Billy] had been dozing.
"If you're going to act like a child, maybe we'll just have to treat you like a child." (5.59.1-3)
Barbara is really getting off on this power trip over her old man, we'd say. In what sense does aging seem like another kind of confinement? Billy has various encounters with aging people: his dying mother (2.26) and an old man in a doctor's waiting room (9.19). How does Vonnegut represent aging?