Study Guide

Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 9, Section 20

By Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 9, Section 20

The couple is not afraid of Billy, who continues to look ridiculous in his toga and silver shoes.
They are both obstetricians who delivered babies until the hospitals burned down. They are a handsome couple, and they speak nine languages between them.
Billy asks them in English what they want, and they immediately answer.
They yell at Billy for treating the horses so badly and make him come look at the state they're in.
Billy cries for the first and last time during the war.