Chapter 5: Simile

“She [Valencia] was as big as a house because she couldn’t stop eating” (Vonnegut 70). I think this quotation is hilarious. He uses a simile to tell us that his fiancée is a rather large woman. Billy tells us that “she couldn’t stop eating” and this apparent throughout the novel. Almost every time Valencia is acknowledged in the story, she is eating something. Much of the time what she is feasting on is candy bars. This shows that she has a “sweet tooth.” This quote from above makes me believe that Billy does not truly love Valencia. On the following page, it says, “Billy didn’t want to marry ugly Valencia. She was one of the symptoms of his disease.” This backs up my belief. I like Vonnegut’s humor with Valencia. It makes the novel more interesting.