As Billy, Edgar Derby, and Werner Gluck arrived in the kitchen, "everybody had gone home but one woman who had been waiting for them impatiently. She was a war widow. So it goes. She had her hat and coat on. She wanted to go home, too, even though there wasn't anybody there. Her white gloves were laid out side by side on the zinc counter top." After questioning the men about their appearance, she told them that "All the real soldiers are dead."
Through his diction and details, Vonnegut creates an angry atmosphere with tension in the air. By doing so, he makes the story become more appealing to the reader. Think about it, there is no one in the kitchen but a woman who wants to go home and is impatiently waiting on three guys. After she questions them for being too old or young to be in war, she tells them all real soldiers are dead anyways. The anger she has is very palpable. That anger could also be from her husband dying in war causing her to say "All real soldiers are dead."
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