Chapter 9 - Hubris

I wouldn't say that there is a single downfall in this book, but more of a long and endless stream of downfalls. This is powered by Billy's sleep, his hubris. Whenever Billy sleeps, he seems to time travel and when he time travel he always travels to a troubled time. So Vonnegut describe Billy sleeping in the green, coffin-shaped wagon, I couldn't help, but realize that there is a dual meaning when he wrote, "Billy Pilgrim was armed as he snoozed" (195). Yes that means Billy did have a gun attached to him, but I also took as though the time travel was his hubris, what lead him to trouble.