A Formalist critic is someone who analyze and study features of a text that is repeated or a symbol. In Slaughterhouse V, Vonnegut’s repetition of “blue and ivory” represents loneliness, sterility, cold, and death to show the impact of war on soldiers. Blue ivory symbolizes loneliness and sterile. Billy was working on a letter and was typing it on an old typewriter in a rumpus room. Billy’s heat source was broken, the house temperature was below fifty degrees, and he wasn't wearing warm clothes either. “He was barefoot, and still in his pajamas and a bathrobe, though it was late afternoon. His bare feet were blue and ivory” (28). Billy Pilgrim is typing in the basement, while no one is present in his home, the housekeeper is gone, and his
