Vonnegut Jr. uses personification to demonstrate how artificial happiness causes people to lose a grip on reality, sending them away from true happiness. From the moment nature descends upon the euphio ridden individuals, euphio reveals its terrifying effects "...I felt around for the Beaver Patrol, and found them missing. I opened my eyes to see... Eddie and the milkman and Lew and the trooper...standing by a picture window, cheering. The wind outside was roaring and slashing savagely and driving raindrops through the broken window as though they'd been fired from air rifles." (225). This personification shows how the wind cannot literally slash and howl. However, the personification shows the intrusion of oblivion, this time by nature. It
