Everyone wants a perfect life, but most people do not know what they have to do to get it. Many think that they can have the life they want without sacrificing anything. The author Kurt Vonnegut argues that when one has a perfect life, consequently, there was a dark way to obtain it that nobody else perceives to be wrong. Kurt Vonnegut indicates that life can be darker than the way it is perceived in his story "2BR02B" through his use of symbolism and imagery. Kurt Vonnegut uses the symbolism of the mural and the dirty drop cloth to develop the idea that life can be darker than the way it is perceived. The text states, "Men and women in purple uniforms pulled up weeds, cut down plants that were old and sickly, raked leaves, carried refuse
