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Study Guide

Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 8, Section 11

By Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 8, Section 11

Billy invites Trout to his 18th wedding anniversary party.
Trout comes to the party and everyone likes him.
He chats up Maggie White, a homemaker married to an optometrist.
Billy listens while fiddling with something in his pocket: a box containing a ring for his wife.