Style of Cat 2s Cradle

"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed." (156). When Kurt Vonnegut wrote these lines in his novel Cat's Cradle , through the narration of John as a writer, he, in deed, expressed his own aim in writing this novel. As a postmodernist writer, by using innovative techniques in Cat's Cradle, he intends to reach modern reader, in order to help …

…create in this novel, appears at this point, that the world ended with the ice-nine, the creation of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, or in other words the creation of man. In conclusion, Kurt Vonnegut, with the advantages of postmodernism, in Cat's Cradle, portraits the post-II.W.W. America society in a humourous way in spite of its context; and he uses innovative technique, in which his forming of language, narration, humor, parody and fantasy are idiosyncratic.