Slaughterhouse-Five: pages 119-136

One of the sections that stood out the most to me was the scene when Billy is back in his house and his angry daughter Barbara is confronting him about the letters in the newspaper about Tralfamadore. I noticed that this scene has been repeated at least once before, i wonder why the author would include it again. I think that the reason for this is as proof of Billy's time travel because he relives the moment over again and knows the answers to previous mysteries. For example his daughter asks him if he had noticed the cold and he didn't but now he knew why the heat wasn't working, because a rat had chewed through the cable. It must be very frustrating living and reliving your life knowing what will happen every time but not being able to do anything about it!

Another significant event in this chapter is that now there is another human that has also been to Tralfamadore. Billy gets to know Montana, the imported hollywood movie star, in Tralfamadore and for once in his life he has a companion who really loves him and depends on him. She is his only friend on Tralfamadore and she completely trusts him and it seems that this is Billy first love. I wonder if during the time that he and Montana spend together if Billy is married to his "bearable" wife whom he doesn't even know why he proposed to her at all.

I thought the beginning of this section was sad because it would be so difficult to spend the rest of your life with someone you don't really care for. The honeymoon seemed quite regular but when the narrator mentions the couple on the ship that passes i think he was jealous to see so an attractive happy couple. I think that seeing that couple showed Billy that he was still searching for his sense of satisfaction and happiness in life. Until he meets Montana the actress i don't think Billy had a truely happy life. You can see that Billy is trying to get back to his normal life by going back to work at the end of the chapter which should be a good sign but since Billy honestly believes his own stories of Tralfamadore, when he tells others they think he's losing his mind. Billy now thinks like the Tralfamadorians do. He describes human actions as"earthling ways" and talks freely of the fourth dimension. Billy doesn't understand how the "earthlings" can ridicule him because he lived those experiences and what he went through was too incredible to be believed.