Point of View

In this first chapter, the point of view has a direct impact on the way we understand the story.  He writes it from his first person point of view to make his story seem more personal.  The way he describes his journeys of how he attained all of his material for the story is brought to even more light by how he tells it through his own eyes.  For example he Vonnegut says, "O'Hare and I gave up on remembering, went into the living room, talked about other things."  Had he said something like 'the two men went into the living room,' we would have lost the personal touch that a first person story has.