The story “2BRO2B” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is set in Chicago and has a futuristic feel to it. There are no longer any prisons, slums insane asylums, cripples, poverty, wars and all diseases are conquered. Everything that is considered negative in today’s society does not exist in theirs. This does not make their society better, because of people living longer citizens have to follow population control and once someone is born someone has to die.
The story seems similar to biblical era, because of people living longer and having children at what would normally be considered an old age. The mural being painted is titled “the happy Garden of life”, but a lot of people are unhappy by the end of the story. The bigger message of the story might be
The story seems similar to biblical era, because of people living longer and having children at what would normally be considered an old age. The mural being painted is titled “the happy Garden of life”, but a lot of people are unhappy by the end of the story. The bigger message of the story might be