Chapter 9

Vonnegut presents situational irony in this chapter. Billy is in the hospital recovering from the plane crash while Valencia is frantically on her way to see him. Valencia was under the impression that Billy was going to die. Valencia was in a state of shock, and “she missed the correct turnoff from the throughway. She applied her power brakes, and a Mercedes slammed into her from behind” (233). The situational irony is present when Valencia dies when reaching the hospital from poison when she was coming to visit her recovering husband.