Chapter 9, Motivation

Valencia's motivation behind her frantic behanvior at the beginning of chapter nine, was her husband, Billy, being in the hospital after the plane crash. When Valencia finally reached the hospital, she passed out from carbon monoxide fumes that had leaked into the car, and, "one hour later she was dead. So it goes" (183). Meanwhile, Billy is in the hospital and his daughter has a live-in nurse stay with him when he is released. He sneaks out of his house one day and goes to Times Square to preach the philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. After this point on, more and more people begin to question his sanity.