Chapter One??

     As I was reading chapter one, I was disconcerted.  I began reading with the assumption that Vonnegut was going to jump right in to the story at chapter one.  Needless to say, I was incorrect.  Vonnegut used chapter one as a preface!  In my opinion, Vonnegut used chapter one as a preface because if it was labeled "Preface", most of the people reading the book would have skipped it (I for sure would have, no doubt). 
     In chapter one, Vonnegut discusses his plan, layout, and the process of creating Slaughterhouse Five.  For example,  Vonnegut tells us that he "had outlined the Dresden story many times.  The best outline I ever made, or anyway the prettiest one, was on the back of a roll of of wallpaper."  His statements towards the end of chapter one saying "I've finished my war book now.  The next one I write is going to be fun.  This one is a failure, and had to be..." show the readers that chapter one was written after the book.  I wonder if the story will start in chapter two, or if it will just be a part two to the preface.